[Tagging] Deprecating phone=* in favor of more ambiguity in the database

[Graeme Fitzpatrick]

On Thu, 27 Jan 2022 at 07:47, Sören Reinecke <valinora at gmx.net> wrote:

> I want to deprecate phone=*
>
2000000 phone= v ~500 contact:phone= ...

> in favor of more ambiguity in the OSM database
>
I thought the ideal was to remove ambiguity? :-)

> , providing more clarity for data cusomers to have just one key with the
> same meaning.
>
So why not deprecate the virtually hardly used contact:phone, which should
satisfy all your arguments?

Thanks

Graeme
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