Let me summarize<br><br>Why `phone`:<br>- It's more used<br>- It's shorter<br>- Better to find in wiki<br><br>Why `contact:phone`:<br>- It's more structured because it's a subkey of `contact`<br>- It's better to find in wiki (for people who think in a "more structured" way)<br>- It's the approved one<br><br>Both let us add more subkeys like `emergency`<br><br>Cheerio<br><br>Sören Reinecke alias Valor Naram<div class="quote" style="line-height: 1.5"><br><br>-------- Original Message --------<br>Subject: Re: [Tagging] phone vs contact:phone WAS Re: Multiple tags for one purpose<br>From: Colin Smale <colin.smale@xs4all.nl><br>To: tagging@openstreetmap.org<br>CC: <br><br><br type="attribution"><blockquote class="quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" /></head><body style='font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif'>
<p>On 2019-08-26 15:53, Martin Koppenhoefer wrote:</p>
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<div class="pre" style="margin: 0; padding: 0; font-family: monospace">sent from a phone<br /><br />On 25. Aug 2019, at 18:06, Andy Mabbett <<a href="mailto:andy@pigsonthewing.org.uk">andy@pigsonthewing.org.uk</a>> wrote:<br /><br /> there are at least two possibilities:<br />phone=<br /> phone:emergency=<br /> phone:staff=<br /><br /> and:<br />phone=<br /> emergency:phone=<br /> staff:phone=<br /><br /> Neither of which requires "contact:"<br /><br /> exactly, I was about to reply the same, it is not an issue for more specific tags that there is also a generic tag.<br /><br /></div>
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<div class="pre" style="margin: 0; padding: 0; font-family: monospace">So will we now have the OSM-style discussion about which phone number to put in the generic tag? All numbers are equal, but one is slightly more equal than the rest...</div>
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