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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 04/12/2019 12:01, Richard Fairhurst
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<pre class="moz-quote-pre" wrap="">Sören Reinecke wrote:
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<pre class="moz-quote-pre" wrap="">This proposal tends to make Key:contact:phone the official tag
for tagging phone numbers and to deprecate Key:phone which is
not fitting in the idea of grouping keys. Anyway it's bad to have
two keys for the exact same purpose in use.
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Please just kill me now.
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<p>Ahem.</p>
<p>Perhaps, Sören, it would help if you explained in a bit more
detail why you think it's a good idea to have yet another vote on
this?
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Discussions/tagging/contact:phone_or_phone">https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Discussions/tagging/contact:phone_or_phone</a>
is largely content-free, apart from the "how we format phone
numbers" part (which is I believe largely agreed and common to
both).<br>
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<p>If you could explain why it is "bad to have two keys for the
exact same purpose in use" in that proposal it would stand much
more chance of not being rejected or (more likely) just ignored.</p>
<p>Historically OpenStreetMap, with free-form tagging, has succeeded
where other more codified approaches have failed. That isn't
unique - think Wikipedia vs Nupedia. Historically also OSM has
tried to make life easy for mappers rather than data consumers -
the idea being that 1000 mapped items (some with tags that may
need a bit of correction or merging later) is better than 100
perfectly tagged ones with 900 unmapped.</p>
<p>It'd also be good to see an explanation of why it's worth the
time even going through this again - haven't we all got better
things to do?<br>
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<p>Surely we know from previous discussions that <br>
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<li>some people prefer using "phone" as a key, <br>
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<li>some people prefer "contact:phone"</li>
<li>in the absence of other information they mean exactly the same
thing</li>
<li>it's trivial for renderers and other data consumers to treat
them exactly the same</li>
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<p>Best Regards,</p>
<p>Andy<br>
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