Talk:List of brands

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Are you using this data manually or are you using some program? Mateusz Konieczny (talk) 07:34, 4 May 2018 (UTC)

I'm using this list as a guide for me to manually change objects with JOSM. --Doktorpixel14 (talk) 08:07, 4 May 2018 (UTC)

"wrong" name

"name=Starbucks Coffee (name=Starbucks: wrong, but more used)"

Have you considered "official_name=Starbucks Coffee" with "name=Starbucks"? At least in my region (Poland) edit changing name=Starbucks to name=Starbucks Coffee would be clearly wrong Mateusz Konieczny (talk) 07:36, 4 May 2018 (UTC)

I got my information according to Starbucks from this wiki page. Maybe calling "name=Starbucks" 'wrong' is not good, so I'll change it in my table. --Doktorpixel14 (talk) 08:07, 4 May 2018 (UTC)
I attempted to improve POI:Starbucks_Coffee Mateusz Konieczny (talk) 12:08, 4 May 2018 (UTC)

Brand tag

Why do you duplicate the information in the brand and name? If the object does not have its own individual name, you do not need to fill in the tag name. FreeExec (talk) 19:02, 7 May 2018 (UTC)

I agree with FreeExec, no need to use the same name as brand's name (especially if the only reason is "can't see it on the map"). Because some of them would be wrong, e.g. McDonald's may be named as McCafe or McAuto (I'm still not sure if this is the name, but what I saw looks like). Leroy Merlin named its stores after the nearest street or square (OBI the same). Our JuvelirTorg (means "jewelry shop or seller") gives a specific name for every shop (Agate, Emerald, Coral) VlIvYur (talk) 21:17, 7 May 2018 (UTC)
I thought it would be better to use brand:wikidata only if there is a brand tag, but your arguments make sense. brand:wikidata should be enough if name=* and brand=* are the same --Doktorpixel14 (talk) 10:16, 9 May 2018 (UTC)
See [1] for further discussions about that. --Doktorpixel14 (talk) 08:50, 10 May 2018 (UTC)

Other attempts

DE:Unternehmensketten

https://github.com/osmlab/name-suggestion-index

user:rtfm Rtfm (talk) 20:09, 4 May 2018 (UTC)

THanks for reminding me about https://github.com/osmlab/name-suggestion-index - this page seems to be mostly a duplicate of data that is already collected Mateusz Konieczny (talk) 21:55, 6 May 2018 (UTC)

Errors

Leaving aside whether it's a good idea to duplicate the existing name suggestion index, some stuff here does seem a bit ropy. I've never seen a "PENNY Market" in the UK for example, and the wikidata entry seems to be LIDL's. --SomeoneElse (talk) 22:45, 15 May 2018 (UTC)

Apostrophe characters

I noticed that System-users-3.svgfixedbusiness (on osm, edits, contrib, heatmap, chngset com.) has been fiddling with business names in OSM. A lot of these businesses have an apostrophe character in their name. There are [W] many possible unicode encodings for an apostrophe, but the top candidates are U+0027 and U+2019.

OSM editors generally accept any Unicode character as input. However, on my standard American English keyboard, when I type an apostrophe, I get Unicode U+0027 (equivalent to plain ASCII 0x27). I'm not aware of any easy way to get other characters like Unicode right single quote U+2019 entered using JOSM or iD without opening a separate application to browse character sets. There is an iD issue 2625 notes that iD accepts any Unicode but has presents for things like "McDonald's" with the Unicode U+0027 character.

Many OSM users have been using "Applebee's" for the restaurant and these were all changed to "Applebee’s Neighborhood Grill & Bar". Note the change in apostrophe character and the additional text that many did not consider part of the name of the restaurant. See the following graph generated from OSM Tag History:

Applebee's naming over time

--Dobratzp (talk) 19:35, 20 September 2018 (UTC)

Thanks for the note. I replaced ’ by ' for the restaurants I already changed before. (Changeset) --Doktorpixel14 (talk) 10:11, 25 October 2018 (UTC)