Talk:Key:email

Do not map email addresses

1) OSM is a geo database. Email adresses aren't geodata.

2) By mapping email addresses, you offer them to spammers on a silver platter. Web developers do all kinds of tricks (javascript, HTML contact forms) to obstruct email adresses. When email adresses are given in plain HTML, it's because the web developers are beginners or they need maximum compatibility (like administrative bodies or for disabled people).

3) Most institutions have multiple email addresses. You need to look at their website anyway to find out which of them to send your email to.

If we can't delete all of the instances of email=* and contact:email=*, we should at least put a warning about the spam issue on both wiki pages.

--Fkv (talk) 07:45, 20 August 2022 (UTC)

Mapping properties such as email is fine. See Automated Edits code of conduct if you plan to mass-remove email tags. Mateusz Konieczny (talk) 06:04, 26 August 2022 (UTC)