2010/9/29 Alan Mintz <alan_mintz+...@earthlink.net>: > At 2010-09-28 11:43, Sean Horgan wrote: > > 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. > > +1 The operator is usually the least apparent, being found only on a plaque > somewhere or a business license, and may be the same as the brand, in the > case of company-owned stores. Many JOSM presets get this wrong by offering > the operator tag for this seldom-known info and not the more commonly-known > brand tag, causing people to reverse the two, as does the fuzzy language in > the wiki. We settled this a while back - can someone review the JOSM > presets?
There is also no wikipage yet for Key:brand (if I didn't overlook it). Can we try to make up a text and put it? cheers, Martin _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list Tagging@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
