[OSM-talk] contact: tags

[Martin Koppenhoefer]

Am 07.05.2015 um 13:50 schrieb Richard Z. <ricoz.osm at gmail.com>:

>> then contact:twitter is also flat
>> out wrong, because many companies will not reply and maybe not even read
>> what you tweet them.
> 
> this is one of the reasons why contact:twitter is much better then 
> twitter=* because the first one explicitly says it can be used for 
> contacting while the other could mean anything else that you can 
> do with twitter.


people will not be more inclined to respond to enquiries via a certain medium if we put a contact prefix in osm, or did I misunderstand you and you propose to use both tags, one for their Twitter account and the other if they react to Twitter messages?


> Likewise contact:website is reasonably clear while website=* may or 
> may not offer a contact method.


indeed, there are lots of reasons why someone will visit a website and contact is only a subset of them.


> In addition most companies will have 
> different web pages for different purposes and website=* would be 
> typically the main page and not the contact form.


wouldn't contact:url or contact:webpage then be a better tag for this?

Cheers 
Martin