A bit of a meta-discussion.... I wonder why this topic is not going the same way as the debate on talk-gb last November-December in which it was proposed to tidy up and normalise various spelling variants? There was a lot of vehement opposition to any automated "corrections" as many chains are inconsistent with their own orthography and only on-the-ground mappers would be able to tell whether or not there is an apostrophe present in the signage at this particular branch (etc. etc., you get this idea).
Discussion starts here: https://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/talk-gb/2014-November/016718.html //colin On 2015-05-02 18:14, Andrew MacKinnon wrote: >> I wouldn't be so sure here. As an example, there's a bakery chain in the UK >> called "Greggs". They're mostly tagged "shop=bakery" (with a few >> Subway-esque "amenity=fast_food" / "cuisine=sandwich" as well). Occasionally >> shops like this get wrongly tagged, sometimes as "amenity=cafe", and there's >> always a temptation to "just fix them". However, guess what? Yesterday I >> accidentally walked past a genuine Greggs "amenity=cafe": > > There are too many of these errors (things like McDonalds without an > apostrophe and amenity=fast_food incorrectly tagged > amenity=restaurant) to check them all individually. I am only > interested in fixing the big chains here and will leave things I am > not familiar with alone. I live in Canada, and we have all the big > worldwide chains (McDonald's, Subway, KFC, Walmart) and some big local > chains (Tim Hortons, Loblaws, Shoppers Drug Mart, Sobeys, Rexall etc.) > With many of the chains most of the stores look pretty similar from an > air photo and it is easy to identify them that way. Also the > increasing popularity of Mapillary makes it easier to check these in > areas where Mapillary is available. > > If you find a weird situation like this I would strongly recommend > putting a note tag on it. If I don't mistakenly correct the POI then > someone else might do it. Usually when I find this sort of situation > it is in a different country from the country where the chain has its > stores, and some independent store has the same name as the chain. > Occasionally there might be some store called Subway that doesn't sell > sandwiches that is legal because the Subway trademark only covers fast > food restaurants, or something like that. Any Subway or McDonald's > store that isn't owned by the big chains in one of the countries where > those chains operate would almost certainly be sued for trademark > infringement and shut down. > > _______________________________________________ > talk mailing list > talk@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk [1] Links: ------ [1] https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
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