[Tagging] Feature Proposal - RFC - (Phone)

[Martin Koppenhoefer]

sent from a phone

> On 28. Sep 2019, at 11:48, Chris Hill <osm at raggedred.net> wrote:
> 
> Removing seemingly similar tags and so homogenising the OSM database is a very risky path to take. We risk removing subtlety and obscuring mappers' real intent. The world we live in and try to represent with map data is a muddled, mixed-up, jumble of human-made stuff that includes many contradictions and minutely different things. One great strength of OSM tagging is that mappers can find ways to represent this. If we march down the homogenisation highway much of that strength will be lost.


+1, I wholeheartedly agree with this



> 
> I oppose deprecating contact:phone=*



still, I support discouraging the use of contact:phone (as you write, the world is full of contradictions ;-) ). And of contact:website by the way.


Cheers Martin