<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, Jan 26, 2022 at 2:35 PM Graeme Fitzpatrick <<a href="mailto:graemefitz1@gmail.com">graemefitz1@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><br clear="all"><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, 27 Jan 2022 at 07:47, Sören Reinecke <<a href="mailto:valinora@gmx.net" target="_blank">valinora@gmx.net</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
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<p>I want to deprecate phone=* </p></div></blockquote><div>2000000 phone= v ~500 contact:phone= ...<div></div></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div><p>in favor of more ambiguity in the OSM
database</p></div></blockquote><div>I thought the ideal was to remove ambiguity? :-)</div><div></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div><p>, providing more clarity for data cusomers to have just
one key with the same meaning.<br></p></div></blockquote><div></div>So why not deprecate the virtually hardly used contact:phone, which should satisfy all your arguments?<div><br></div></div></div></blockquote><div>Another schema that data consumers likely use is <a href="http://schema.org">schema.org</a>. They have the simple tag of telephone and even show a sample with phone=. Seems simple enough.</div><div><br></div><div>Best,</div><div>Clifford</div></div><div><br></div>-- <br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div>@osm_washington<br></div><div><a href="https://www.snowandsnow.us" target="_blank">www.snowandsnow.us</a></div><div>OpenStreetMap: Maps with a human touch</div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>