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

[Paul Allen]

On Mon, 4 May 2020 at 22:59, Marc M. <marc_marc_irc at hotmail.com> wrote:

> Le 04.05.20 à 23:19, Paul Allen a écrit :
> >
> > Except we don't all agree that they are for the same thing,
> > not even phone and contact:phone
>
> The only solution is to create other tags to better describe
> this difference.
>

That can work.  It can also mean we end up with four different tags
for the same two things.

>
> > I've added URLs for historic buildings
> > that give more information about the building.
>
> as for the plate, imho I would use website, but maybe url=*
> you said you added an url :)
>

I tend to use website when it's for the main page of a website and URL
for a page within a website.  Technically they're both URLs but we
don't have a webpage tag and I feel uncomfortable calling a single
page which is part of a much larger website a website.

>
> but if it's a valid argument, let's split the issue in 2 :
> for all poi (shop, office, craft, bar, restaurant), does phone
> and contact:phone have the same meaning or you have another undocumented
> meaning that explain it's not the same ?
>

For me, they're the same thing.  Others have different opinions on that.
And,
as Phil pointed out, we use phone for phone boxes.  Even if you managed to
persuade everyone to use contact:phone for everything else, we'd need
phone for phone boxes where there is nobody to contact.

and email<>contact:email ?
>

 There are email addresses that aren't for contacting human beings.  The
address to unsubscribe from this list is one such.  I can't think of any
reason we'd need to map that type of address, but my imagination is
limited.  So contact:email is fine by me.  But probably not by others.

Facebook is more problematic.  I've encountered facebook pages
which are just a way of getting a free web presence and are not
used as a way of contacting the organization.  From my
perspective, contact:facebook would only be applicable to
the m.me/user style URLs that fire up messenger.  But that's
just me.

-- 
Paul
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