Hotels are similar to petrol stations in that many are independently owned and operated but rely heavily on the brand for marketing. Coffee shops, fastfood restaurants and any other franchise-business fall into the same bucket (starbucks, mcdonalds, home depot, Teleflora). name, operator, and brand would normally be 3 different things in these cases.
Sean On Tue, Sep 28, 2010 at 10:56, M∡rtin Koppenhoefer <[email protected]>wrote: > 2010/9/28 Sean Horgan <[email protected]>: > > sounds good, no objections. > > > OK, as this is IMHO no real change, I put it in the wiki. > > Now I realized something else: > according to the German ML for tagging certain objects 3 tags are useful: > name, operator, brand > > e.g. a petrol station: > name would be the _name_ of the specific petrol station > operator would be the name of the company or person running this > specific station > brand would be the name of the chain, e.g. BP, Shell, etc. > > Now looking at the wiki and getting this example: > * tourism=hotel > * name=Le Méridien Piccadilly (the name of the specific hotel) > * operator=Le Méridien (the name of the company that runs the > hotel, and which maybe run other hotels too) > > I notice a slightly different approach ;-) > > any comments/opinions? > > cheers, > Martin > > _______________________________________________ > Tagging mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging >
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