On Fri, Oct 1, 2010 at 6:00 AM, Simone Saviolo <simone.savi...@gmail.com> wrote: > Ontologically, saying that the name of that specific fast-food is > "McDonald's" (old schema) may be acceptable. Commonly, you'd call it > "the McDonald's". The new schema is just more correct, in that it > recognizes as "McDonald's" isn't actually the name of that feature, > but its brand. As long as consumers use correctly the > name/brand/operator chain, though, it is not a problem to have them > both. Of course, with the old schema, if a specific McDonald's had its > own name, you would put that one in name=*, just like with the new > schema.
The name is McDonald's because that's what's on prominent signage. If there's a more detailed name ("Bob's McDonald's #43"), that can go in official_name. _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list Tagging@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging