On Mon, Jan 9, 2012 at 8:27 AM, Metcalf, Calvin (DOT) <[email protected]> wrote: > as there is that brand tag,
There's an operator tag. I've not seen "brand" as a tag. > than using that would seem the best way to convey that the building is a > Safeway, name > being Safeway #xxx means it's the name of that particular Safeway and could > be useful to > people who are looking at the map and then may want to look up the store on a > website OSM is meant as a general purpose datasource, so let's focus on the average mapper's needs, rather than what someone might want in a special cirumstance. Even in the edge case provided above, though the ref tag is actually more helpful here than the store number in the name as it provides valuable metadata. Therefore IMHO the tagging which best serves the needs of both the users and the renderer and the rare person who needs the store number is to forget name, and set operator=Safeway ref=XXXX - Serge _______________________________________________ Talk-us mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us
