[OSM-talk] contact: tags

[Martin Koppenhoefer]

2015-05-07 16:40 GMT+02:00 Richard Z. <ricoz.osm at gmail.com>:

> > 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.



If this is what we are after I'd suggest to use a different tag like

preferred_contact_medium:twitter=yes
preferred_contact_medium:email=yes

but in my opinion this goes generally too far in detail, so I'd refrain
from tagging this property.

Please note that currently the definition for contact:-prefixed tags is
exactly the same as for the tag without the prefix. If you want to express
something different, please "invent" a new tag, because you cannot (or
rarely / hardly) redefine tags that are in use.

Cheers,
Martin
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