sent from a phone

> On 28. Sep 2019, at 11:48, Chris Hill <o...@raggedred.net> wrote:
> 
> Removing seemingly similar tags and so homogenising the OSM database is a 
> very risky path to take. We risk removing subtlety and obscuring mappers' 
> real intent. The world we live in and try to represent with map data is a 
> muddled, mixed-up, jumble of human-made stuff that includes many 
> contradictions and minutely different things. One great strength of OSM 
> tagging is that mappers can find ways to represent this. If we march down the 
> homogenisation highway much of that strength will be lost.


+1, I wholeheartedly agree with this



> 
> I oppose deprecating contact:phone=*



still, I support discouraging the use of contact:phone (as you write, the world 
is full of contradictions ;-) ). And of contact:website by the way.


Cheers Martin 
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