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

[Robert Skedgell]

On 26/01/2022 22:32, Graeme Fitzpatrick wrote:
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> On Thu, 27 Jan 2022 at 07:47, Sören Reinecke <valinora at gmx.net 
> <mailto:valinora at gmx.net>> wrote:
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>     I want to deprecate phone=*
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> 2000000 phone= v ~500 contact:phone= ...

No, that's ~500 uses of contact=*, which are likely to be errors.

According to taginfo, contact:phone=* has ~500k uses, phone=* 1.9M.

https://taginfo.openstreetmap.org/keys/contact:phone
https://taginfo.openstreetmap.org/keys/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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Because it isn't "virtually hardly used", although uses are weighted 4:1 
in favour of phone?

> Thanks
> 
> Graeme
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