On Monday, 21 October 2019, Warin wrote: > On 21/10/19 09:52, Joseph Eisenberg wrote: > > I'm in favor of deprecating contact:phone now (and the other > > contact:XXX duplicates later), but I don't know about your other > > proposed changes. > > > > For example, requiring the country code in all phone numbers would not > > be standard practice in Indonesia or the USA, since people in these > > countries very rarely make phone calls to other countries. > > It is not 'standard practice' in Australia, New Zealand either.. but it is > what is done in OSM to enable people from outside that country to call that > number. > So in the Australian Tagging Guidelines that are instructions on how to tag > phone numbers in OSM using +61. > See > https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Australian_Tagging_Guidelines#Phone_Numbers > > I would suggest similar guides for Indonesia and America. > Where a phone number in OSM does not start with a '+' that can mean it needs > some attention, with some exceptions as a few phone numbers are not > accessible from outside the particular country. > A + prefix is the standard way of entering phone numbers in OSM, but in the real world it is also the standard way to enter phone numbers in your mobile phone. If you enter numbers as would work at home, you will get errors when you try to call those numbers when roaming.
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