On Thu, Sep 30, 2010 at 1:14 PM, M∡rtin Koppenhoefer <dieterdre...@gmail.com> wrote: > 2010/9/30 Nathan Edgars II <nerou...@gmail.com>: >> On Thu, Sep 30, 2010 at 12:47 PM, M∡rtin Koppenhoefer >> <dieterdre...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> 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. >> >> Which wiki page is that? I just created the brand page yesterday. > > http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/car
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:shop%3Dcar however uses operator and brand differently. But we're changing this usage of operator to brand, so to keep the distinction we need to change brand to something else. > > don't know if there are other pages (no time at the moment for wiki searches). > As said above: maybe not a big issue. I can think of a problem though: > Imagine a car-dealer trust, that sells cars under the brand of > "Shinecars" but actually their business modell is a franchise, ie. the > single car dealer (operator) is independent. They only sell Mercedes > of course. Now, which brand-tag would this be? This might be easily > solved with car:brand=Mercedes Benz. That seems reasonable. Mercedes-Benz is the brand of what's being sold, not the brand of the dealership itself (although some car companies may open up stores in their own name; then brand would be appropriate). On the other hand McDonald's is the brand of the restaurant as well as of some of the food being sold there. _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list Tagging@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
