[OSM-talk] contact: tags

[Richard Z.]

On Thu, May 07, 2015 at 04:20:22PM +0200, Martin Koppenhoefer wrote:
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> Am 07.05.2015 um 13:50 schrieb Richard Z. <ricoz.osm at gmail.com>:
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> >> then contact:twitter is also flat
> >> out wrong, because many companies will not reply and maybe not even read
> >> what you tweet them.
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> > 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.
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> 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?

indeed my  intention was to use "contact:twitter" exactly when 
a company explicitly recommends it as a way to contact them whereas
twitter=* could be used to mean anything else.


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

That is what I was trying to say:)

Richard