I can confirm that McDonald's in Quebec, Canada have an apostrophe from a Mapillary image of one in Gatineau, QC: <http://www.mapillary.com/map/im/CYy8HTA4MeQouhZ6929gJw>. Reason being that an apostrophe is "English" but it is allowed in Quebec (at least nowadays) under French language laws.
I am aware that McDonald's in non-Latin scripts is different but I assume that McDonald's has an apostrophe everywhere else. (Is there a country where "McDonalds" is actually correct?) If someone manages to get properly licensed data on store locations from a large company, it might be useful to look at the data integration functionality at <http://osmose.openstreetmap.fr/en/map/>. Simply importing data is a bad idea because there already are lots of existing POIs in OSM (there are 14039 objects with name=McDonald's in OSM and Wikipedia says there are about 35000 McDonald's restaurants in the world, so OSM has slightly less than 50% of them), and because imported data is often poor quality. On Fri, May 1, 2015 at 5:52 PM, pmailkeey . <pmailk...@googlemail.com> wrote: > > > On 1 May 2015 at 18:30, Imre Samu <pella.s...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> > .. McDonald's problem... >> >> Please don't forget the true "McDonald's" problem! It is a content >> encoding hell. >> and very hard to detect by any ordinary field mappers. >> >> #1. >> name="McDonald’s" ( count=126 ) U+2019 ’ e2 80 99 "RIGHT SINGLE >> QUOTATION MARK" >> http://taginfo.openstreetmap.org/tags/name=McDonald%E2%80%99s >> http://overpass-turbo.eu/s/97c >> >> #2. >> name="McDonald´s" ( count=40 ) U+00B4 ´ c2 b4 "ACUTE ACCENT" >> http://taginfo.openstreetmap.org/tags/name=McDonald%C2%B4s >> http://overpass-turbo.eu/s/97e >> >> #3. >> name="McDonald's" ( count=14039) U+0027 ' 27 "APOSTROPHE" >> http://taginfo.openstreetmap.org/tags/name=McDonald's >> >> Regards, >> Imre >> >> > > Any hope of tracing the sources of #1 and #2 ? Such as Apple users ? and > which editor was used? > > -- > Mike. > @millomweb - For all your info on Millom and South Copeland > via the area's premier website - > > currently unavailable due to ongoing harassment of me, my family, property & > pets > > T&Cs > > _______________________________________________ > talk mailing list > talk@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk > _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
