[Talk-GB] Voting mechanical edit: UK shop names
Dear all, Voting is now open for the proposal to unify the names of chain shops within the UK by renaming them. Please cast your vote at https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Mechanical_Edits/Math1985/UK_Shop_Names. More information can be found on this page as well. Kind regards, Matthijs ___ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb
Re: [Talk-GB] Voting mechanical edit: UK shop names
Hi, On 10/31/2014 11:51 PM, Matthijs Melissen wrote: Voting is now open for the proposal to unify the names of chain shops within the UK by renaming them. I have the following problem with this: I do understand the rationale and it is indeed true that it is nicer to have a unified landscape of names. However, is this not leading us down a path where we'll have to repeat such edits time and time again, to fix all the misspellings that have been introduced in the mean time? And to make another mass change if chain A is bought out by chain B and the name changes? And make another mass change if the PR guys of Best-One decide that they'd from now on prefer to be called BestOne? And... where does it stop? Will such a mass edit not make data consumers believe that the shop will always be BQ and never B Q or anything else, and create an expectation setting that before too long requires of us to make sure our editors only add the correct spelling (whatever the corporate PR wants it to be at the moment)? Bye Frederik -- Frederik Ramm ## eMail frede...@remote.org ## N49°00'09 E008°23'33 ___ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb
Re: [Talk-GB] Voting mechanical edit: UK shop names
On 31/10/14 22:51, Matthijs Melissen wrote: Voting is now open for the proposal to unify the names of chain shops within the UK by renaming them. Please cast your vote at https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Mechanical_Edits/Math1985/UK_Shop_Names. More information can be found on this page as well. Brantano (UK) Limited shops are all branded 'Brantano Footwear' that is their shop 'Logo' On the whole the changes seem logical, but I'd rather they were applied manually than setting a precedent to allow changes that may not ACTUALLY apply as some small outlet is being a little economic with the name they are using ... -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://lsces.co.uk EnquirySolve - http://enquirysolve.com/ Model Engineers Digital Workshop - http://medw.co.uk Rainbow Digital Media - http://rainbowdigitalmedia.co.uk ___ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb
Re: [Talk-GB] Voting mechanical edit: UK shop names
On 1 November 2014 01:06, Lester Caine les...@lsces.co.uk wrote: Brantano (UK) Limited shops are all branded 'Brantano Footwear' that is their shop 'Logo' We currently have 116 times Brantano and 12 times Brantano Footwear in the UK. I would argue, apparently like most mappers, the the 'Footwear' in the logo is not part of the title, but a description of their activities. On the whole the changes seem logical, but I'd rather they were applied manually than setting a precedent to allow changes that may not ACTUALLY apply as some small outlet is being a little economic with the name they are using ... I would guess that's a rather hypothetical situation. Do you have any example? -- Matthijs ___ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb
