There is a "franchise" tag listed on the wiki. It is a proposed tag, not yet voted on. So, the name tag would have the name of this location of the business, the franchise tag (if present) would have the name of the chain, and operator would have the name of the company or individual operating this particular location.
-------Original Email------- Subject :Re: [OSM-talk] Tag name vs operator >From :mailto:alan_mintz+...@earthlink.net Date :Mon Jul 12 17:51:04 America/Chicago 2010 At 2010-07-12 14:31, John Smith wrote: >On 13 July 2010 07:25, Brad Neuhauser <brad.neuhau...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Side note: John, Do you seriously check health certificates before > > tagging restaurants? > >I don't usually tag name, just operator, I just mentioned that to >point out the name is easy to locate if people did want to tag it. Is operator correct, though? Many well-known chains are franchises, where the actual operator is a company or individual that is named on the business license or health certificate. To use a (hopefully) internationally-known chain of sandwich shops, if you tag operator=Subway, you are saying that Subway operates the restaurant, which is incorrect. Subway rents use of their brand name and collective advertising for 12.5% of the gross sales, and may also act as a vendor for some or all of the supplies, but the owner/operator of the restaurant is someone else. -- Alan Mintz <alan_mintz+...@earthlink.net> _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk -- John F. Eldredge -- j...@jfeldredge.com "Reserve your right to think, for even to think wrongly is better than not to think at all." -- Hypatia of Alexandria _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
