[talk-au] Social Media sites

[Phil Wyatt]

Hi Mateusz,

 

It seems to me where there is a tag specifically for facebook then it should be used. Whilst I have not checked every facebook link I have corrected a few that were failing where I could confirm the business details. I cant imagine why anyone would place a read only facebook site into OSM but again, if I found one, then I would attempt to contact the owners for a correction.

 

I suspect many of the links have been placed by ‘marketeers’ flogging their service to unsuspecting businesses.

 

Personally I wouldn’t be relying on just a facebook site for my business but each to their own.

 

Cheers - Phil

 

 

From: Mateusz Konieczny via Talk-au <talk-au at openstreetmap.org> 
Sent: Saturday, 30 January 2021 6:17 PM
Cc: Talk Au <talk-au at openstreetmap.org>
Subject: Re: [talk-au] Social Media sites

 

Is it really preferred to use contact prefix?

 

Note that in some cases Facebook

pages are read only, without contact 

possibility (you can send a message 

but it will be ignored/get useless automated

reply (maybe it never happens in 

Australia?)

 

 

30 Jan 2021, 04:06 by phil at wyatt-family.com <mailto:phil at wyatt-family.com> :

Hi Folks,

 

I am in the process of cleaning up social media entries in Australia. This involves changing keys such as

 

facebook= https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:facebook

instragram=

youtube=

twitter= https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:twitter

 

to the corresponding preferred contact tag

 

contact:facebook=

contact:instagram=

contact:youtube=

contact:twitter=

 

These are the easy ones but there are hundreds of website= entries that also have a facebook (or other social media) url.  I have done all the nodes/relations and am now slowly working through the ways. I have also requested that this gets validated in the ID Editor - https://github.com/openstreetmap/iD/issues/8328

 

Is there any chance that someone familiar with the Australian Tagging Guidelines wiki pages could please add a section asking folks to use the appropriate contact keys for all social media. This will help with keeping things up to date in the future. https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Australian_Tagging_Guidelines

 

I am aware of the ongoing issue with phone, email and website in relation to the contact key and wont be touching them.

 

Cheers - Phil

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