personally I prefer: RFC 3966/NANP <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NANP> pattern
as its more commonly used for telephone numbers(less the country code(unless long distance). Especially in white pages(back in the day we had paper copies) On Jan 28, 2018 8:24 PM, "Matthew Darwin" <matt...@mdarwin.ca> wrote: > Hi all, > > Is there a preferred phone number format we use in Canada? > > I noticed a bunch of phone numbers in Ottawa don't follow the > recommendations in https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:phone, namely: > > - phone=*number* where the *number* should be in international (ITU-T > E.164 <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E.164>) format > - phone=+<country code> <area code> <local number>, following the ITU-T > E.123 <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E.123> and the DIN 5008 > <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/de:DIN_5008> pattern > - (phone=+<country code>-<area code>-<local number>, following the > RFC 3966/NANP <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NANP> pattern) > > Is there a preference which of these formats is used? Can anyone run a > query and see which is more popular in the country? > > The reason I'm asking is that since a bunch of phone numbers leave off the > +1 (and have other errors), I want to align them to the recommended > format. I am wondering if I should have them in the format of "+1 999 555 > 1234" or "+1-999-555-1234". If there is no existing preference adopted > in OSM Canada, I will use the latter to cleanup the non-compliant phone > numbers. > > Comments? > > I am also assuming we prefer "phone" over "contact:phone" as per > https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:contact > > _______________________________________________ > Talk-ca mailing list > Talk-ca@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ca > >
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