John Smith wrote:
On 13 July 2010 06:59, Pieren<pier...@gmail.com> wrote:
I would say the exact opposite. The tag 'name' is what you see on the
facade. The (optional) tag 'operator' is the name of the chain but we should
not suggest to not use 'name' otherwise we will have different tagging when
restaurants/hotels are part or not of a chain.
No according to the wiki:
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:operator
As others have pointed out, 'brand' may be a better choice of 'name' in some
cases, but in reality there are THREE possible tags in many of these cases. For
example
name=the fancy hotel
brand=best western
operator=the local best western franchise
Our local supermarket is a budgens but ...
brand=budgens
operator=Guy Warner Group
In this case the 'name' might be 'Guy Warner Budgens' as appears on the local
sign.
petrol stations and other 'franchise' type operations will have the same more
complex relations ... BUT for example, I have a 'fast fuel' fuel card which can
be used at any Texaco garage, but the operator of those garages may not be
Texaco, so should I be adding a 'fastfuel'=yes tag or brand=Texaco to identify
this ... Just another piece of the branding jigsaw.
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