On Wed, Aug 20, 2008 at 03:54:56PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > I am definitively against phone numbers in OSM. On many communities on the > internet > publishing phone numbers and email adresses is not welcome because wrong > numbers can't be found easily and people suffering from such phone calls will > be really annoyed. > Please use the WEBSITE tag - nobody will be annoyed by an error in a URL > and if a phone number changes the sitemaster will take care and not the > mapper. > If there is no website for the amenity, you can add the URL of the search > result of > the yellow pages.
The point will be that one day you need the yellow-pages machine
readable link. E.g. every car navigation will show you the next 20
hotels surrounding you and will offer the numbers and addresses.
I do agree though that these informations should not be the scope of OSM
but there should be some possibility to link them.
Flo
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