Business Names - lots of odd things going on
I've been adding a lot of business names to a few local shopping centers and noticed some really odd behaviors. It appears to be consistent but makes no sense, so I gotta ask if these are bugs. Even if not bugs, can somebody explain why these things are happening and how to make it stop. Everything I'm about to write has been edited in iD3.
First, I used to not put business types in to OSM, but in iD3 I finally discovered that if you search for "electronics store" or "pharmacy" or "supermarket" or "clothing store" or whatever else, that it appears to help out by customizing the type of store you're naming. But here are the probems I'm finding...
1) If you choose "Restaurant", you then can add the name of the restaurant and optionally the type of cuisine and everything works great. The name of the business does show up on the map, along with a cool fork & knife icon. I just wanted to establish that as the baseline for what I'd normally expect.
2) But if you choose "Pet Store", "Electronics Store", or "Mobile Phone Store" (among others), the iD3 editor automatically appends " - Pet Store" or " - Electronics Store" to the end of the store *type*, which makes no sense to me because the name of the store and the type of store are totally different values. So for instance if I choose "Electronics Store" and then add the name value of "Best Buy", it automatically shows up at the top as "Best Buy - Electronics Store". OK, here's the most important part: when this happens, the name of the store does not show up on the rendered map, defeating the purpose of adding any of this information to OSM.
3) However if you choose "Clothing Store", it does the same as I described above, adding " - Clothing Store" after the name, but in this case clothing stores do actually show up on the map. Weird that it's inconsistent like that.
4) Finally, for "Sporting Goods Store", "Jeweler", "Shoe Store" and some others, it doesn't do that automatic name changing thing, but none of these types of stores will show up on the rendered map at all.
So what the heck is the deal with these things? I used to just do "business" and name and it worked. You'd think that adding the type of business would be more helpful but it is so often preventing it from showing up on the rendered OSM maps. Please explain this madness before I bother to add more and more business names all over the world.