On 23 Oct 2008, at 12:18, Dave Stubbs wrote:
On Thu, Oct 23, 2008 at 12:05 PM, David Earl <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote:I notice there is increasing use of a tag brand=... for things likeshops, fuel, banks, atms etc. This seems like a good idea to me, as thename of something ("Murkets Corner filling station") can be different from its branding ("Shell"). Often you'd use them interchangeable("Starbucks" doesn't often have a specific name, other than perhaps the name of the street or town to which it applies, which is probably clearfrom the context).As this seems to be in fairly common use, I'll add it to map features asit isn't mentioned anywhere explicitly yet. Also, I will change the Name finder to start recognising it. New oramended 'brand's will get into the index fairly soon, but existing oneswon't until I rebuild the index from a complete planet file, which Iintend to do over Christmas (it will take at least a week to do this).Do you pay attention to the operator= tag at all? I can imagine people are using it for a similar purpose (although strictly speaking it's a different thing again, as a lot of these things are actually franchises, and I'm not sure how that works :-)).
I think that operator works bettor for public transport things, whereas brand would work better for shops.
Shaun
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