[Tagging] Remove non-prefixed versions of 'contact:' scheme
Shawn K. Quinn
skquinn at rushpost.com
Mon May 4 14:35:59 UTC 2020
On 5/4/20 05:53, Valor Naram via Tagging wrote:
> I request to replace all occurrence of the non-prefixed versions of
> the contact keys like Key:phone, Key:email. Key:website to be
> replaced with the prefixed ones like Key:contact:phone,
> Key:contact:email, Key:contact:website . The current situation harms
> our database in a way that makes our data less useful. In order to be
> successful we need to standardize to the contact: prefix.> No more multiple keys for the exact same purpose with just
> different names! Make tagging more orthogonal! As someone who has
> experience in database and normalisation it hurts to see that
> mappers don't know how to take care of a database. It is time to take
> action and to clean up so OSM data gets more useful.
As an alternative, why not get rid of the contact:* versions since most
people are not using them?
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