On 07/05/15 15:20, Martin Koppenhoefer wrote: >> Likewise contact:website is reasonably clear while website=* may or >> > may not offer a contact method. > > indeed, there are lots of reasons why someone will visit a website and > contact is only a subset of them.
>> > 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. > > wouldn't contact:url or contact:webpage then be a better tag for this? I have to admit that this is where I had got to myself. I'm working on the basis that 'website' is indeed the main page of the related website. I can then select 'book' or 'contact' or view their offerings to see if I want to visit. Adding a 'contact:website' may well be appropriate in some cases just as would 'book:website' or 'book:phone' if there are different numbers for the reservation system over the general enquiries. I don't think it is necessary or appropriate for OSM to provide a 'contact' directory for every POI on the map. What would make much more sense to me would be if there was a standard enquiry method for a website such as 'contact.domain' which removes the need for OSM to manage any of that secondary data. Once one has 'website=domain' even 'phone=xxx' becomes redundant ... as does addr: ... but that is probably going a little too far since the addr: details are needed for routing to a POI. -- Lester Caine - G8HFL ----------------------------- Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://lsces.co.uk EnquirySolve - http://enquirysolve.com/ Model Engineers Digital Workshop - http://medw.co.uk Rainbow Digital Media - http://rainbowdigitalmedia.co.uk _______________________________________________ talk mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
