sounds good, no objections. On Tue, Sep 28, 2010 at 01:59, M∡rtin Koppenhoefer <dieterdre...@gmail.com>wrote:
> 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 >
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