On Wed, May 06, 2015 at 11:37:41PM +0200, Andreas Goss wrote: > >the verbosity may be unneeded for very simple things like phone > >but is that true for everything covered by "contact*" ? > >key:fax? key:twitter? key:vhf? > > > >So what would you do with those tags? > > If we don't use contact for phone, it makes no sense at all to use it for > something like social media etc.
it does make a lot of sense to catch all the less frequently used contact methods which would otherwise require special treatment and own documentation pages. Maybe phone deserves special treatment but I would also prefer contact:phone over phone=* btw. > In addition I think if the emphasis on contact was really that you can > actually contact someone (contact:phone) then contact:twitter is also flat > out wrong, because many companies will not reply and maybe not even read > what you tweet them. this is one of the reasons why contact:twitter is much better then twitter=* because the first one explicitly says it can be used for contacting while the other could mean anything else that you can do with twitter. Likewise contact:website is reasonably clear while website=* may or may not offer a contact method. In addition most companies will have different web pages for different purposes and website=* would be typically the main page and not the contact form. Another reason why I prefer contact:* over phone/vhf/drums main keys is that I believe mapping phone numbers and websites is not the mainstay of OSM so it is good to prevent too much polution of the key namespace with things like vhf=*. Richard _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
