Re: [talk-au] name vs barnd

2024-07-24 Thread Andrew Harvey
On Thu, 25 Jul 2024 at 08:16, Graeme Fitzpatrick wrote: > Consensus from the English speakers is effectively that if you say you're > going down to Aldi, then the name is Aldi, while the branch could be Aldi > > I prefer to use: brand=Aldi branch= ref= name= To me the exact format of the nam

Re: [talk-au] name vs barnd

2024-07-24 Thread Graeme Fitzpatrick
Yeah, do you go down to Woolies or do you go to : https://www.woolworths.com.au/shop/storelocator/qld-burleigh-heads-2480 ? Thanks Graeme On Thu, 25 Jul 2024 at 08:32, cleary wrote: > My local Woolworths is named " Woolworths" and the nearby IGA is > " IGA". The Coles supermarket in a nearby s

Re: [talk-au] name vs barnd

2024-07-24 Thread cleary
My local Woolworths is named " Woolworths" and the nearby IGA is " IGA". The Coles supermarket in a nearby suburb is "Coles ". So the brand seems to form part of the name in each case. Thus, for me, the name would be " Woolworths" and, if considered necessary to add a brand, then the brand wo

Re: [talk-au] name vs barnd

2024-07-24 Thread Graeme Fitzpatrick
There's been a very extensive discussion on this topic in the Forum: https://community.openstreetmap.org/t/restructure-wiki-page-key-name/110631 (started by a non-native English speaker, saying that the English words are wrong!) Consensus from the English speakers is effectively that if you say yo

[talk-au] name vs barnd

2024-07-24 Thread Warin
Hi My local Aldi store is closing down. Looking at the tags used, possibly entered by me, the name=Aldi has been used. I think that should have been the brand=Aldi ?? There are similar things for Coles and Woolies. Any thoughts? - Re Aldi closing down .. there are a few o