Hi, On 05/10/2018 04:23 PM, Martin Koppenhoefer wrote: > It is also a result of how the tags have been introduced, name was used much > earlier than brand (which was originally only proposed for automotive brands) > so that there is some self-amplifying process of people looking around how > things are done and doing it similarly. And maybe most important, osm carto > doesn’t render brands, which is sufficient reason for many maybe most mappers > to prefer name.
"brand" is an artificial construct of today's global capitalist economy. I have nothing against OSM recording it, but I'd be loathe to afford the concept the same importance as corporate PR departments do. Knowing what brand a store belongs to is only worth anything if you combine that with OSM-external "knowledge" that you have gained from marketing material or past experiences with different branches of the same brand. It is not a useful fact that helps a visitor who doesn't know anything about the brand's supposed image. Bye Frederik -- Frederik Ramm ## eMail frede...@remote.org ## N49°00'09" E008°23'33" _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list Tagging@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
