[OSM-talk] contact: tags

[Richard Z.]

On Sun, May 10, 2015 at 01:31:52PM +0200, Andreas Goss wrote:
> On 5/7/15 16:40 , Richard Z. wrote:
> >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.
> 
> 1. That's not how it's been used currently
> 2. How would we ensure every mapper knows the difference?
> 3. Even if for some magical reason people understand the difference, how
> many will bother checking that?

#4 how do we know how many of all these phone=* and other entries are
valid and verifiable? Was there ever any attempt at quality control?

Richard