<div dir="ltr"><br><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote"><font><font>On Sun, May 3, 2015 at 8:17 AM, Andrew MacKinnon </font></font><span dir="ltr"><font><font><</font></font><a href="mailto:andrewpmk@gmail.com" target="_blank"><font><font>andrewpmk@gmail.com</font></font></a><font><font>></font></font></span><font><font> wrote:</font></font><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><font><font>I am proposing that the contact: set of tags (contact:phone,</font></font><br><font><font>
contact:website, etc.) be depreciated and replaced with the simpler</font></font><br><font><font>
set of tags (phone, website, etc.) I am not proposing that anyone do</font></font><br><font><font>
any mechanical edits.</font></font><br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Without a mechanical edit, what's the real benefit?</div><div>Since there are tens of thousands of each, rendering, editing and processing tools must cover all styles.</div><div>A human viewer will see each style also.</div><div><br></div><div>-</div><div>Mechanical tag consolidation is possible in OSM, though it's pretty hard. I recently completed tag</div><div><font><font class="">consolidation on motorhome toilet dump stations (though failed to get consensus on the related boat feature). That</font></font></div><div><font><font class="">was a much smaller feature count, but dozens of tagging styles.</font></font></div></div></div></div>