Re: [Tagging] Business names in capital letters

2019-12-29 Thread Marc Gemis
> That said, on the ALDI UK website, only the logo depicts "ALDI." Everywhere > else on the page that the company name is rendered as ordinary text it is > "Aldi." But the German sites (https://aldi.de/ and https://www.aldi-nord.de/unternehmen/verantwortung.html) seem to use ALDI (or ALDI Nord)

Re: [Tagging] Business names in capital letters

2019-12-29 Thread Paul Allen
On Mon, 30 Dec 2019 at 00:02, Jarek Piórkowski wrote: > I think this comes down to OSM's "use the commonly used name" > guideline (or "common usage" guideline) which I don't think has ever > been firmly defined. As I understand it's always been on a "you know > when you see it" basis, and excepti

Re: [Tagging] Business names in capital letters

2019-12-29 Thread Jarek Piórkowski
On Sun, 29 Dec 2019 at 16:24, bkil wrote: > We had the same argument over a local mailing list and another idea came up: > some of the signage you see and many of their own website use the given > capitalization for stylistic purposes. But the question remains: why isn't a > map using stylistic

Re: [Tagging] Public WLAN boxes

2019-12-29 Thread bkil
Okay, I guess customers may be getting a bit closer, although we would still need to convey somehow that not everyone can be a customer (for example no tourists) and that I can't just show up in person to volunteer to be a customer as wit ha cafe - I need to do my "homework" of registering at home

Re: [Tagging] Public WLAN boxes

2019-12-29 Thread marc marc
Le 29.12.19 à 21:50, bkil a écrit : > fee=no @ register with an Italian phone number it seems to indicate that it's fee=yes if you don't register, which doesn't seem to fit with what you're saying. I prefer : internet_access:fee=customers (you need to be a customer of it... some use access for tha

Re: [Tagging] Business names in capital letters

2019-12-29 Thread marc marc
Le 29.12.19 à 22:23, bkil a écrit : > What do you think about these? if the value is an abbreviation, then it's a short_name (but brand doesn't have a short_brand key, in this case it's normal to put the abbreviation in uppercase in brand=*) if the value is not an abbreviation, I will use the usu

Re: [Tagging] Business names in capital letters

2019-12-29 Thread bkil
I find it amusing that some of the other big map providers have chosen a different "canonical" capitalization of the same trademarks. So they either are not canonical after all, or we misunderstood the meaning of the name=* key all along. I think when deciding such issues, we would need to share an

Re: [Tagging] Public WLAN boxes

2019-12-29 Thread bkil
I probably wouldn't add the antenna tags either, unless it is visible and useful for navigational purposes. If possible, please add the network name as well, something like this: operator=Comune di Cividale del Friuli internet_access=wlan internet_access:ssid=FVGWiFi This is a bit sketchy questio

[Tagging] szekler_gate vs. szekely_gate?

2019-12-29 Thread bkil
Just a quick question to some native speakers, which one would you understand as more correct? artwork_type = szekler_gate tourism = artwork vs. artwork_type = szekely_gate tourism = artwork For describing the following very common objects in central Europe: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/C