<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">2014-12-18 21:41 GMT+01:00 Andy Street <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:andy@street.me.uk" target="_blank">andy@street.me.uk</a>></span>:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><span class="">> They try to push that tag everywhere even when the tag without the<br>
> prefix is used 10x more.<br>
<br>
</span>This is the ad populum fallacy. Any attempt to improve a tagging scheme<br>
will always start out being numerically weaker regardless of the merit<br>
of the proposal. </blockquote></div><br><br><br clear="all">yes, but if you look in this case on the wiki history, it was created almost 6 years ago (Jan 2009) by copying info from another page (i.e. this is likely older then 6 years). In all this time this alternative way of tagging didn't find enough support to even come closer to the un-prefixed tagging alternative. IMHO we shouldn't wait any longer and declare the alternative way for deprecated. <br><a href="http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/w/index.php?title=Key:contact&action=history">http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/w/index.php?title=Key:contact&action=history</a><br><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">There are also strange suggestions like "contact:webcam" (how would you contact someone via his public webcam?) and some documented keys are not even used 5 times (one has no occurence at all). These are at best proposals but shouldn't be in a "Key:"-Definition page.<br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">cheers,<br>Martin<br></div></div>