2012/10/15 Andrew Errington <erringt...@gmail.com>: > Hello everyone, > > It's my responsibility to keep this proposal going. Sorry about the delay, > but I would like to open this proposal for a vote. > > http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:branch > > Since I first put up the proposal I have wanted more and more to be able to > use it.
First of all: you don't have to wait that some proposals gets voted or "approved" in order to use a key. I still believe that the proposed key is a bad choice because of its equivocality. Have a look here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Branch_(disambiguation) This is used (differently) in the context of railways, banks, military, trade, ... Additionally in French and German "branche" has the meaning of industrial sector/class of business/branch of trade (e.g. "textile" industry, or "automotive"), as it seems in old English this was the case as well, so there will probably be some confusion because of this. It also seems that there is already "brand" in use for some of the targeted things of this proposal (namely the "McDonald's"-example is already 248 times tagged with brand). http://taginfo.openstreetmap.org/keys/brand#values There are already some 6800 values for "branch" in the db: http://taginfo.openstreetmap.org/keys/branch#values so as proponent of this tag you should IMHO check these values if they are in accordance with your proposed intention (and given that there are many foreign values maybe ask the local communities what they intend with this tag). Cheers, Martin _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list Tagging@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
