[OSM-talk] contact: tags

Bryce Nesbitt bryce2 at obviously.com
Mon May 11 02:41:34 UTC 2015


On Sun, May 10, 2015 at 5:52 AM, Richard Z. <ricoz.osm at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > 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?
>

The keepright web validator, and the related MapRoulette challenge,
make an attempt at this.  The website= is loaded, and matched to tags
included
name= and phone=.

Mostly it finds restaurants that closed years ago.
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