Hi all,
We are Oscar (oscar.be) - a car-rental network with 95 branches across Belgium, part of the Oscar Car Rental group (also DK, NL, DE, ES, US). Before we edit anything, we want to announce our planned organised edit here, per the Organised Editing Guidelines and the Import Guidelines.
**Today:** none of our 95 Belgian branches are in OSM.
**What we plan to do:**
1. **Create the ~95 missing branches** as `amenity=car_rental` nodes, with facts from our own operational database (address, opening hours, phone, website).
2. Going forward: **keep our own POIs up to date** when facts change (including positions when a branch relocates), and mark permanently closed branches with `disused:amenity=car_rental` while removing stale contact facts — **we never delete elements**.
3. **`operator` follow-up:** every branch is run by an independent local partner company. Once our Belgian partners’ real trading names are verified, we add `operator=<the partner’s trading name>` in a separate reviewed batch
**Full tag set** (we write only these keys and never modify or remove any other tag):
```
amenity=car_rental
name=Oscar
brand=Oscar
brand:wikidata=Q140566474
branch=Aartselaar
opening_hours=Mo-Fr 08:00-18:00
phone=+32 …
ref=1234 (our branch number — matches the branchCode in our website’s schema markup)
website=https://oscar.be/…
addr:street=… / addr:housenumber=… / addr:postcode=… / addr:city=…
```
**How:**
- One human-reviewed batch, uploaded via the API (osmChange) from the dedicated account `OscarCarRental_import` (per the Import Guidelines; our main account `Oscar Car Rental` stays for manual edits and communication).
- A named employee reviews the complete tag set of every element before upload.
- **Conflation:** before creating anything we check country-wide via Overpass, and again live via the API at upload time, for existing `amenity=car_rental` elements within 150 m. An existing element **of our brand** is adopted/updated, never duplicated; other rental brands nearby are left alone. A foreign rental sitting directly at our coordinates blocks the automation - a human decides.
- **Position verification:** before the batch we verify every branch’s coordinates against a geocode of its official address and fix mismatches in our source data first — a lesson from our Dutch batch, where the community caught three imprecisely placed nodes (fixed within hours).
- **Pace:** at most **one batch per country per day**; batches are 30–150 elements.
- Every changeset carries the hashtag **#oscarcarrental** (filterable in OSMCha), `bot=yes`, `import=yes`, and a link to our declaration page: wiki link
**Track record:**
Denmark 142/142 branches listed ([thread]( Oscar Biludlejning – organiseret redigering: ~131 nye filialer + vedligeholdes )),
The Netherlands with active community review ([thread]( Oscar Autoverhuur: ons filiaalonderhoud formeel als organised editing + de laatste ~7 toevoegen ))
the US incl. operator([thread]( Oscar Car Rental: adding ~34 missing Wisconsin-area branches + ongoing maintenance (organised editing) )).
**Data & licence:** all data comes from our own first-party database; as the data owner we explicitly grant its use in OSM under ODbL.
**Timeline:** we will start no earlier than Aug 17. Feedback before then shapes the batch; feedback after is taken just as seriously. Reply here, comment on a changeset, or message the account. If the community objects, we stop immediately and revert on request
Contact: Oscar K (fitting name, I know), Oscar.