> There are too many on both sides who insist that their way is the one true way.
Actually, there is something pretty close to 'one TRUE way'. There are some things in the Dataverse that are used by everybody, and everybody uses everybody else's stuff. And when the Internet arrived they set up common meanings for the very most common concepts. Like phone numbers. Schema.org <https://schema.org/> is a collaborative, community activity with a mission to create, maintain, and promote schemas for structured data on the Internet, on web pages, in email messages, and beyond.... Founded by Google, Microsoft, Yahoo and Yandex, Schema.org vocabularies are developed by an open community <https://www.w3.org/community/schemaorg> process, using the public-schema...@w3.org <http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-schemaorg> mailing list and through GitHub <http://github.com/schemaorg/schemaorg>. See click the ' JSON-LD ' tab on Example 2 at https://schema.org/ContactPoint#HearingImpairedSupported-gen-208 ( on https://schema.org/ContactPoint ) which shows how phone numbers play out for even small businesses in the world. Yea, yeah, it's complicated, or at least the specification is, but rarely are doers and users exposed to the full complexity, just the simple subset of what is needed for a particular use case. Something like a phone number looks like a discrete 'thing', but it's not. It's a relationship between other things. '... many on both sides who insist that their way is the one true way' is essentially a manifestation of of the 'Blind men and an elephant' ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blind_men_and_an_elephant#The_parable ) situation. While all the blind men will never agree, if the blind men with the ear, the trunk, and the tusk ask questions of someone that can see the whole elephant, they can come up with a functional meaning that covers the at least the head. There's probably no 'tagging' situation in OSM that wasn't solved by the resolution of *Electronic data interchange* (*EDI*) issues in the period between 1970 to 1998. Michael Patrick Data Ferret
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