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

[Robin Burek]

"Robert Skedgell" rob at hubris.org.uk – 27. Januar 2022 10:45
> No, that's ~500 uses of contact=*, which are likely to be errors.
>
> According to taginfo, contact:phone=* has ~500k uses, phone=* 1.9M.
> [...]
> Because it isn't "virtually hardly used", although uses are weighted 4:1
> in favour of phone?

With a ratio of 1:4 (actually even less, in reality it is 1:3.7 ;) ), I think that with almost 3 million entries, the decision whether to use contact:phone or phone should not be based on quantity. The other soft factors must also be taken into account here: iD still only supports phone in its presets, so this distribution is actually skewed in favour of phone. (no competitive neutrality)...
Likewise, the reasons for contact:* still apply. It always makes sense to combine such semantic connections in tagging. Instead of letting the contact data continue to be distributed wildly. Why can't we manage something here that has already been created elsewhere in tagging?
We simply continue to oversleep instead of finally solving the problem.
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