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

[Clifford Snow]

On Wed, Jan 26, 2022 at 2:35 PM Graeme Fitzpatrick <graemefitz1 at gmail.com>
wrote:

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> On Thu, 27 Jan 2022 at 07:47, Sören Reinecke <valinora at gmx.net> wrote:
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>> I want to deprecate phone=*
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> 2000000 phone= v ~500 contact:phone= ...
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>> in favor of more ambiguity in the OSM database
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> I thought the ideal was to remove ambiguity? :-)
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>> , providing more clarity for data cusomers to have just one key with the
>> same meaning.
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> So why not deprecate the virtually hardly used contact:phone, which should
> satisfy all your arguments?
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> Another schema that data consumers likely use is schema.org. They have
the simple tag of telephone and even show a sample with phone=. Seems
simple enough.

Best,
Clifford

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