At 2010-09-28 11:43, Sean Horgan wrote:
Hotels are similar to petrol stations in that many are independently owned and operated but rely heavily on the brand for marketing.  Coffee shops,  fastfood restaurants and any other franchise-business fall into the same bucket  (starbucks, mcdonalds, home depot, Teleflora).  name, operator, and brand would normally be 3 different things in these cases.

+1 The operator is usually the least apparent, being found only on a plaque somewhere or a business license, and may be the same as the brand, in the case of company-owned stores. Many JOSM presets get this wrong by offering  the operator tag for this seldom-known info and not the more commonly-known brand tag, causing people to reverse the two, as does the fuzzy language in the wiki. We settled this a while back - can someone review the JOSM presets?


On Tue, Sep 28, 2010 at 10:56, M∡rtin Koppenhoefer <dieterdre...@gmail.com> wrote:
2010/9/28 Sean Horgan <seanhor...@gmail.com>:
> sounds good, no objections.



OK, as this is IMHO no real change, I put it in the wiki.

Now I realized something else:
according to the German ML for tagging certain objects 3 tags are useful:
name, operator, brand

e.g. a petrol station:
name would be the _name_ of the specific petrol station
operator would be the name of the company or person running this
specific station
brand would be the name of the chain, e.g. BP, Shell, etc.

Now looking at the wiki and getting this example:
   * tourism=hotel
   * name=Le Méridien Piccadilly (the name of the specific hotel)
   * operator=Le Méridien (the name of the company that runs the
hotel, and which maybe run other hotels too)

Knowing nothing else, the operator key should be brand. If one knows that the chain actually manages/operates this hotel itself, the "operator=Le Méridien" tag would be appropriate as well.

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Alan Mintz <alan_mintz+...@earthlink.net>

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