[OSM-talk] contact: tags

[Bryce Nesbitt]

On Sun, May 3, 2015 at 8:17 AM, Andrew MacKinnon <andrewpmk at gmail.com>
wrote:

> I am proposing that the contact: set of tags (contact:phone,
> contact:website, etc.) be depreciated and replaced with the simpler
> set of tags (phone, website, etc.) I am not proposing that anyone do
> any mechanical edits.
>

Without a mechanical edit, what's the real benefit?
Since there are tens of thousands of each, rendering, editing and
processing tools must cover all styles.
A human viewer will see each style also.

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Mechanical tag consolidation is possible in OSM, though it's pretty hard.
I recently completed tag
consolidation on motorhome toilet dump stations (though failed to get
consensus on the related boat feature).  That
was a much smaller feature count, but dozens of tagging styles.
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