There was an action a couple of years ago in the Netherlands to unify
the orthography of shop names..... It was very successful, after a
consultation.
Here's the link to the discussion on the forum - unfortunately it's all
in Dutch... https://forum.openstreetmap.org/viewtopic.php?id=33909
The originator of the project was Matthijs Melissen, who make wiki pages
for the mechanical edit process that ensued:
https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Mechanical_Edits/Math1985_mechanical
Colin
On 2018-05-03 18:34, Leon Karcher wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I thought about unifying large store/restaurant chains with several locations
> for many times now. There are some tags that are applicable to all locations
> of a specific brand like brand=*, amenity=*/shop=*, cuisine=* for restaurants
> and for some also name=*. Espacially name=* and brand=* are important to find
> and filter POI.
>
> To have an overview I created a list in the wiki [1] which includes
> applicable tags of some brands, but it's still under construction and only
> shows the ones that I know. So feel free to help.
>
> I already did a small unification for "Applebee's" locations in Ohio (see
> this changeset [2]). To do so I filtered out name=Applebee's and
> name=Applebees via Overpass and reviewed the changes manually. Even though I
> did the changes manually, this is sort of a mechanical edit, which is the
> reason for me to ask on this mailing list on your opinion about such changes.
> And also: What do you think of having such a list of brands?
>
> Hope to hear some opinions,
> Leon/doktorpixel14
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Links:
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[1] https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/User:Doktorpixel14/Brands
[2] https://www.openstreetmap.org/changeset/58652839
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