[Tagging] phone vs contact:phone WAS Re: Multiple tags for one purpose

Martin Koppenhoefer dieterdreist at gmail.com
Thu Sep 19 07:29:56 UTC 2019


Am Do., 19. Sept. 2019 um 09:20 Uhr schrieb Valor Naram via Tagging <
tagging at openstreetmap.org>:

> Let me summarize
>
> Why `phone`:
> - It's more used
> - It's shorter
> - Better to find in wiki
>
> Why `contact:phone`:
> - It's more structured because it's a subkey of `contact`
> - It's better to find in wiki (for people who think in a "more structured"
> way)
> - It's the approved one



I would question that it is easier to find "contact:phone" compared to
"phone" in the wiki, regardless of the structured way you think in. Try it:
https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/w/index.php?search=phone+number&title=Special%3ASearch&go=Go
contact:phone doesn't even have a wiki page, only a redirect. The first
thing you read on the "contact:*" collector page is a reference to the more
used "phone" key.

I would also question there is a point in the "approval" by voting, as
approval by usage (and growth) is more important than voting.

This leaves only the "more structured" as an argument, which can be seen as
a pro, but also not. And while this "structured" approach may work nicely
for phone numbers, it is questionable for keys like "website", because a
website is a website, and may be an interesting datum, even if there is no
contact possibility whatsoever on the website.

"phone" is not only more used, its usage is also growing faster.

Cheers,
Martin
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