On Thu, Oct 23, 2008 at 12:05 PM, David Earl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I notice there is increasing use of a tag brand=... for things like
> shops, fuel, banks, atms etc. This seems like a good idea to me, as the
> name of something ("Murkets Corner filling station") can be different
> from its branding ("Shell"). Often you'd use them interchangeable
> ("Starbucks" doesn't often have a specific name, other than perhaps the
> name of the street or town to which it applies, which is probably clear
> from the context).
>
> As this seems to be in fairly common use, I'll add it to map features as
> it isn't mentioned anywhere explicitly yet.
>
> Also, I will change the Name finder to start recognising it. New or
> amended 'brand's will get into the index fairly soon, but existing ones
> won't until I rebuild the index from a complete planet file, which I
> intend to do over Christmas (it will take at least a week to do this).
>Do you pay attention to the operator= tag at all? I can imagine people are using it for a similar purpose (although strictly speaking it's a different thing again, as a lot of these things are actually franchises, and I'm not sure how that works :-)). Dave _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
