Re: [Tagging] Remove non-prefixed versions of 'contact:' scheme

Mon, 04 May 2020 08:28:47 -0700

> As an alternative, why not get rid of the contact:* versions since most
people are not using them?

I tried this in the first round and people rejected it with the reason that this is the newer one which should be used

~ Sören Reinecke alias Valor Naram


-------- Original Message --------
Subject: Re: [Tagging] Remove non-prefixed versions of 'contact:' scheme
From: "Shawn K. Quinn"
To: [email protected]
CC:


On 5/4/20 05:53, Valor Naram via Tagging wrote:
> I request to replace all occurrence of the non-prefixed versions of
> the contact keys like Key:phone, Key:email. Key:website to be
> replaced with the prefixed ones like Key:contact:phone,
> Key:contact:email, Key:contact:website . The current situation harms
> our database in a way that makes our data less useful. In order to be
> successful we need to standardize to the contact: prefix.> No more multiple keys for the exact same purpose with just
> different names! Make tagging more orthogonal! As someone who has
> experience in database and normalisation it hurts to see that
> mappers don't know how to take care of a database. It is time to take
> action and to clean up so OSM data gets more useful.

As an alternative, why not get rid of the contact:* versions since most
people are not using them?

--
Shawn K. Quinn
http://www.rantroulette.com
http://www.skqrecordquest.com

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