[Tagging] About "url" Key

[A.Pirard.Papou]

On 2013-06-24 14:50, Serge Wroclawski wrote :
> Usually the "url" tag is used for an organization's website. For
> example, many musems, libraries, restaurants, etc. have an official
> website. That's what the website (or url) tag is for (I think
> "website" is actually preferred but url is just as good). I'd
> generally not use a Google+ page for a site, just like I wouldn't use
> a Facebook page, or a MySpace page, or a Twitter account, unless that
> was the only site that exists, and is curated by the organization itself.
I have suggested without much success that the value for *any* key
defining an "organization" (or anything that can be defined with a web
page) could, and should best, contain an URL.
"contain" means that software displaying the value should auto-recognize
an URL and make it clickable.
There's no point in having the reader make a Google search for some text
when an URL gives him the correct search result right away.
For example: for "operator" as you can see it in 
www.waymarkedtrails.org/?zoom=14&lat=50.51045&lon=5.64918
<http://www.waymarkedtrails.org/?zoom=14&lat=50.51045&lon=5.64918> 
(open Routes window) I used  http://www.sprimont.be/index.php?&id=23.
<http://www.sprimont.be/index.php?&id=23>
Lonvia did not recognize it as an ULR by lack of guidance.
Тhe OSM relation page did.
<http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/relation/2406099>  But map readers
are not supposed to open elation pages, are they?

Cheers,

André.


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