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 B&Q 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
