2010/9/29 Nathan Edgars II <nerou...@gmail.com>: >> Your text says: "The brand is a larger entity that a place advertises >> itself as part of." >> >> This is IMHO not correct. Take automotive. A car seller doesn't >> advertise himself to be part of say Ford. He simply sells Ford cars >> (in accordance with Ford). > > Now we're muddying the purpose of the tag. A Ford dealer simply > chooses to sell Ford cars, just as a restaurant may have only Coke or > Pepsi products.
-1, no, a Ford dealer is not similar to a supermarket selling coke. > But brand is supposed to replace the former (mis)use > of the operator tag, and operator would never have been Ford for a > dealer that simply sells Ford cars. well, brand="brand of a car" is one of the first mentions of brand in the wiki, at least for some years it's there. I don't see a problem. Cheers, Martin _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list Tagging@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
