Help Tagging this Type of POIs

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Hello,

I’m new to mapping and was wondering about the best way to map this type of POIs.

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There is a massive number of points that are simply called Coffee Shop or Barber or Bakery. In the example above, I added 2 signboards of coffee shops. The only differentiator between them is the name of company that owns the coffee shop. I thought of using the tag “owner:en” and “owner:ar” but it seems osm apps don’t search by owner tag. What is the best approach to tag these coffeeshops preferably in both languages? And what tags that can be searched by in osm apps? Also, is Shell (oil company) the operator or the brand of a gas station?

This is how I would tag them:

name: Coffee Shop (in Arabic)

name:ar: Coffee Shop (in Arabic)

name:en: Coffee Shop

amenity: cafe

owner: company name in Arabic

owner:ar: company name in Arabic

owner:en: company name in english

Also, each company has a commercial registration number written in the sign board. As per ChatGPT, it recommended tagging it as '“ref:OM:cr”. Is this correct? OM is the country code.

I would really appreciate your inputs.

Thanks a lot

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ref=* alone is enough.

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Dear traful,

please do not use the name:* tag with Coffee Shop as this is not a name as per OSM definition but represented by the amenity=cafe. The owner tag is not that widely used and because these cafes are operated by companies the operator tag would be better. You can additionally use operator:ar and operator:en for multi-lingual support.

Regarding the fuel station. That depends: If you buy fuel there and the receipt states Shell then it is brand and operator. If not the it is probably only brand Shell and operator something else. See the Wiki page for examples between brand, branch and operator.

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Thanks a lot of r your responses. Really appreciate it.

I believe the “Coffee Shop” is the name of the shop and hence I thought keeping it as the name.

Can alt_name=* be used for the company that owns the shop? At least we can manage a way to be able to search by it.

Thanks

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That would be operator=*

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