On Fri, May 1, 2015 at 11:07 AM, Frederik Ramm <[email protected]> wrote: > Andrew,> > That's a very "computer person" approach to take. In fact, the > "McDonald's" issue has already been tried by someone in the past with an > undiscussed mechanical edit, promptly falsifying a few non-chain > non-fastfood places that *really* were called McDonalds just as you mention.
I am aware of this problem, though usually trademark laws would make it illegal to operate such a store. Various weird exceptions might exist, such as a McDonalds that existed before the well-known McDonald's fast food restaurant existed, or something called McDonalds that is not a fast food restaurant. There is a bus stop in Sudbury, Ontario, Canada called "McDonalds" in front of a McDonald's fast food restaurant which I am told is correct because the bus stop name was accidentally misspelled by the city and never corrected. Usually this is only a problem for a chain that only operates in certain countries, and there are unrelated stores in other countries. I would strongly recommend putting a note on any POI that has the name of a common fast restaurant like McDonald's, Subway, KFC, etc. that isn't actually what you think it is. _______________________________________________ talk mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
