2010/7/12 Alan Mintz <alan_mintz+...@earthlink.net>: > For gas stations, the name of the supplying oil company would be properly > described as the "brand" (e.g. Shell, Mobil). If someone asked me for the > "operator" of the station, I would take this to be synonymous with "owner", > and it would be unlikely to know who it is (or care) unless I knew them > personally, or went there often and saw their name repeated on my credit > card statement. I'd like to tag:
+1 use operator for the operator ;-), in case of a franchise this is typically not the name of the brand. Use name for the name and brand for the brand. cheers, Martin _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
