<div dir="auto">personally I prefer:<div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13.696px">RFC 3966/</span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NANP" style="text-decoration-line:none;color:rgb(66,133,244);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13.696px">NANP</a><span style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13.696px"> pattern</span><br></div><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13.696px"><br></span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13.696px">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)</span></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Jan 28, 2018 8:24 PM, "Matthew Darwin" <<a href="mailto:matthew@mdarwin.ca">matthew@mdarwin.ca</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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Hi all,<br>
<br>
Is there a preferred phone number format we use in Canada? <br>
<br>
I noticed a bunch of phone numbers in Ottawa don't follow the
recommendations in <a class="m_-8569400510709048511moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:phone" target="_blank">https://wiki.openstreetmap.<wbr>org/wiki/Key:phone</a>,
namely:<br>
<ul>
<li> <tt style="background:#eef;font-size:1em;line-height:1.6" dir="ltr" class="m_-8569400510709048511mw-content-ltr"><u></u><a class="m_-8569400510709048511mw-selflink m_-8569400510709048511selflink">phone</a><u></u>=<u></u><i>number</i><u></u></tt>
where the <i>number</i> should be in international (<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E.164" class="m_-8569400510709048511extiw" title="wikipedia:E.164" target="_blank">ITU-T E.164</a>) format
<ul>
<li> <tt style="background:#eef;font-size:1em;line-height:1.6" dir="ltr" class="m_-8569400510709048511mw-content-ltr"><u></u><a class="m_-8569400510709048511mw-selflink m_-8569400510709048511selflink">phone</a><u></u>=<u></u>+<country code>
<area code> <local number><u></u></tt>,
following the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E.123" class="m_-8569400510709048511extiw" title="wikipedia:E.123" target="_blank">ITU-T E.123</a> and
the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/de:DIN_5008" class="m_-8569400510709048511extiw" title="wikipedia:de:DIN 5008" target="_blank">DIN 5008</a>
pattern</li>
<li> (<tt style="background:#eef;font-size:1em;line-height:1.6" dir="ltr" class="m_-8569400510709048511mw-content-ltr"><u></u><a class="m_-8569400510709048511mw-selflink m_-8569400510709048511selflink">phone</a><u></u>=<u></u>+<country
code>-<area code>-<local number><u></u></tt>,
following the RFC 3966/<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NANP" class="m_-8569400510709048511extiw" title="wikipedia:NANP" target="_blank">NANP</a> pattern)</li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
<p>Is there a preference which of these formats is used? Can
anyone run a query and see which is more popular in the country?</p>
<p>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.<br>
</p>
<p>Comments?</p>
<p>I am also assuming we prefer "phone" over "contact:phone" as per
<a class="m_-8569400510709048511moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:contact" target="_blank">https://wiki.openstreetmap.<wbr>org/wiki/Key:contact</a><br>
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