[Tagging] Remove non-prefixed versions of 'contact:' scheme

[Dave F]

Hi

  I request to replace all occurrence of the prefixed versions of the 
contact keys, as it adds no quality to the OSM database



On 04/05/2020 11:53, 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!

But there would still be "multiple keys" (contact:phone, :contact:email etc)

>   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.
>
>
>   * Normalisation of that data is required. Key:phone must be
> translated to Key:contact:phone or backwards.

No it doesn't

>   * Having two schemes leads to confusion of mappers (especially
> for newbies) which they should use.

Then get rid the the 'contact' schema

DaveF