2010/9/28 Pierre-Alain Dorange <pdora...@mac.com>: > Sean Horgan <seanhor...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> agreed. there should be no restriction on who owns/provides the service. > > Yes but then we must provide operator=*
yes, we should encourage the use of operator, which might not be the same as proprietor though. It could be that the operation of the service is assigned to a private company, but the proprietor is public. Like for fuel stations we might need different subtags for this, and we should define the roles in the wiki. Looking at "operator" in the wiki, there is really no definition, just longish local examples: "Often it's useful to describe that a certain map object "belongs" to a company or corporation in any way. For example: With the emerging of private postal service providers, it may be of interest for the map user which postal services provider operates a certain post_box. For example, in Germany there are already some private companies like PIN or Stadtbrief who install their own post boxes. Who wants to ship a letter has to choose the post box of "his" postal service provider. Other examples are pub, restaurant and hotel chains, maybe also streets maintained by private companies where a fee is required. " OK, found it below, in "examples": "The operator tag could be used to name a company or corporation (also a person???) who's responsible for a certain map object or who operates it. " what about changing this to "The operator tag is used to name a company, corporation, person or any other entity who is in charge of the operation of a certain map object" and putting it on top of the page. We could then put the stuff quoted above below "examples". any objections? Cheers, Martin _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list Tagging@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
