On 5/1/2015 11:07 AM, Frederik Ramm wrote:
That's a very "computer person" approach to take. In fact, the "McDonald's" issue has already been tried by someone in the past with an undiscussed mechanical edit, promptly falsifying a few non-chain non-fastfood places that*really* were called McDonalds just as you mention.
The proposed edit doesn't seem to match the previous mass Search/Replace edit. It should also be possible to confirm each location against the McDonalds store locator or a store list from McDonalds.
It is also an easy fallacy to think that if the marketing people of some chain decide to spell their name differently, we could or should simply replace all names to what they "should" be - no we don't, we only change the name when the store changes its lettering.
I as a local mapper would never notice such a change in 100 years of going back to audit POIs. A remote mapper change would correct this properly if checked against corporate data, complete with proper tagging for old_name - this would assist searches for the new name.
The argument is strongly *for* informed, remote changes, assuming that the data in OSM is to be of some use to data consumers.
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