On Monday, 4 May 2020, Paul Allen wrote:
> On Mon, 4 May 2020 at 21:59, Marc M. <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> >
> > - avoid having 2 tags for the same thing.
> > it's bad for both contributors and data-uses.
> >
> 
> Except we don't all agree that they are for the same thing, not even phone
> and contact:phone  That's one of the reasons this argument goes around and
> around.

Exactly, we add phone to phoneboxes, but its not the number to call to contact 
someone about the phonebox.

Phil (trigpoint)

> The other is that those who agree they are the same thing cannot agree on
> which
> of the two to use.
> 
> >
> > - using namespace for contact: (like we do with addr:) it's useful for
> > the use of the data (you can group them without having to hard-code
> > all the possible variants that may exist in the world).
> >
> 
> But not all of them are necessarily contacts.  I've added URLs for
> historic buildings that give more information about the building.  There is
> nobody to talk to about it.  I've added websites for companies; there is
> a contact page on that website but the URL I've given is for the company
> website as a whole.
> 
> -- 
> Paul
>

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