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