ToDoMe/ToDoMe-V2.0 — Issue #4: Allowing user to choose brands
Author: Fodaro
Created: 2012-01-27 16:22:12+00:00
State: open

Some POIs need to be distinguished by brand, for example the user needs to be able to choose the bank that they use.

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The problem with this is that brand names in the OSM database are inconsistent. For example there are two food stores run by The Co-operative Group near the campus. The one on Burgess Road has "Co-op" in its "name" tag, while the one on Portswood road has "Co-operative" in the "operator" tag and no "name" tag. We will either have to find a way to detect these synonyms (strikes me as a rather complicated thing to do), use other databases, or scrape search results on brand websites (:S).