I’ve read this whole topic and it seems like the issue is mainly about Nominatum.
So I did do a search for KFC and received results for in Japan. But one can also add the city into the search and get location contextually useful results.
For example, “KFC Seattle” and “Kentucky Fried Chicken Seattle” is returning the same result (which is a combination KFC and Taco Bell).
For what it’s worth I also did a search on OrganicMaps which gave me location contextually results for both “KFC” and “Kentucky fried chicken”. OSMAnd also gave contextually useful results but “Kentucky Fried Chicken” returned different results than “KFC”.
I don’t see an issue with the tagging, the problem seems that Nominatum does not return the expected results. But other applications are able to handle this case so the results are useful
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