On 2015-08-04 14:57, Dave F. wrote : > Hi > > wiki.openstreetmap.org/w/index.php?title=Key:contact > > I remember a discussion a while back about this. As the page makes no > mention of the logic behind, could someone please remind me of the > reasoning & advantage over straight forward phone, fax, website etc. The contact prefix makes it clear that it's a contact and keeps them grouped alphabetically. Without it, one can wonder what diaspora is or difficultly find contacts in a long tag list. Also, contact:website is not exactly the same as website which could contain no contacts at all.
It's similar to, for example, bicycle=yes. Many persons use it meaninglessly, not as a override of a restriction. They probably didn't read the documentation and they tag similarly to what they see. They probably believe that it means a road nice for biking or with a cycle lane. If we used the full form *access:bicycle=yes*, as Conditional restrictions <http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Conditional_restrictions> explains, the meaning would be clearer and the mistake would probably be avoided. Cheers André.
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