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

[Martin Koppenhoefer]

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> On 29 Jan 2022, at 10:43, Volker Schmidt <voschix at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> OSM is full of alternative tagging schemes for (nearly) identical objects. Data users have to live with them.


+1, having several keys describing the same thing isn’t a big problem, it is a minor issue that can be easily dealt with by treating the keys synonymously.
What is a problem is the opposite: the same tag used for different things/with different intended meaning. This is a major problem because it means you can not trust the tag, and will probably have to check and retag all of them


Cheers Martin