Hey,
now I'm ready to open a new proposal which you can see here
https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/Phone#Second_proposal_.28pending.29
I use the old proposal page for that but seperated content into section
to keep the history intact. The content is based on the discussion at
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I oppose selectively deprecating contact:phone because without explaining whhy
it diifers from other contact tags (populist appeals to tag counts don’t count)
it makes tagging less orthogonal.
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Andrew
From: Valor Naram
Sent: 28 September 2019 09:31
To: Tagging
I disagree with this idea that we must remove similar tags for the sake
of it.
Anyone who actually uses OSM data (rather than people who just imagine
using it) know that there are many steps and choices to make to achieve
the end result. Often this involves combining data with various tags
th
28 Sep 2019, 11:48 by o...@raggedred.net:
> I disagree with this idea that we must remove similar tags for the sake of it.
>
Similar - I agree.
Exact duplicates - removal is a great idea!
> Anyone who actually uses OSM data
>
Note that it is also about mappers
that waste time on discovering tha
You forget that `phone` is identical to `contact:phone` except the name. It's just not similar, it's the same by 99,99%.For example:Researchers will wonder why are there not so many data for tag `contact:phone`. Researchers might not know that there are two ways of tagging phone numbers. So they do
