On Sat, May 2, 2015 at 1:01 PM, Colin Smale <colin.sm...@xs4all.nl> wrote: > 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).
There are some chains that are very consistent and there are others that are inconsistent and haven't bothered to change old signage. At least in Canada I am aware of which ones these are. I am 99% confident that Tim Hortons never has an apostrophe and McDonald's always has an apostrophe, the dozens/hundreds of stores in the Greater Toronto Area are all consistent. Also amenity=restaurant with Subway, McDonald's, KFC, etc. is wrong because amenity=restaurant means a sit down restaurant where you pay after eating. The pages on the wiki I am working on creating are useful for telling which chain stores are always consistent and which have several different variations. _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
