Hey guys, I‘ve tried to solve a mostly related problem in iD last month. I just blogged about it here: https://www.mapbox.com/blog/common-names-in-id/
You can try it out in iD here: http://openstreetmap.us/iD/master Just add geometry, and search for a really common name, like K-Mart, McDonalds, etc.. iD should take care of it for you, using the most used tagging already in OSM. For more detail. I made the name-suggestion-index: https://github.com/osmlab/name-suggestion-index which looks at which names/tag combinations are used most often and tries to promote the most used usage of a name. This stuff is more concerned about names, but we’re also merging together different tagging for features. So a place like Subway is used in both amenity=restaurant and amenity=fast_food, we’re looking at the most common usage and ignoring anything else. The ‘most correct’ list of names and tagging is here: https://github.com/osmlab/name-suggestion-index/blob/master/name-suggestions.json It’s not great right now but I’m still working on improving it to make iD smarter, and maybe it can be used elsewhere too. It’s mostly a manual process that I’ve been doing for now but I hope to automate it more, and update it with every planet update. Right now we’re only concerned with places with names that have been used more than 50 times, also mostly amenity=* and shop=* tags right now. We had some previous discussions along these lines here: https://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/dev/2013-November/027519.html https://github.com/systemed/iD/issues/1949
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