[Tagging] phone validity - phone "preset"

[Mark Wagner]

It would help even more if the editors understood local phone number
formats, and could automatically turn (202)-456-1414 or 041 58 460 55
11 into the appropriate international format.

-- 
Mark

On Tue, 5 Sep 2017 19:01:44 +0000
Lukas Sommer <sommerluk at gmail.com> wrote:

> It would likely yet help a lot if th editors would simply check if
> 
> - the number does not start with “+”
> - the number (after the starting “+” sign) contains other characters
> then digits, spaces (and maybe dashes).
> 
> This is quite simple and could nevertheless catch yet a lot of issues…
> 
> 2017-09-05 16:51 GMT, marc marc <marc_marc_irc at hotmail.com>:
> > Hello,
> >
> > on the french-speaking mailing, a contributor noticed a high rate
> > of incorrect value for the tag "phone". the most common error is
> > using the national format number instead of the international
> > format.
> >
> > A monthly project 'll maybe fix some of those errors.
> > Some quality tool can help those fix.
> >
> > But the best would be to avoid the mistake when a user fill
> > in the data in iD, josm or whatever.
> >
> > Is anyone aware of a kind of "preset" that can be used for phone ?
> > Otherwise it would be useful to create with local communities a wiki
> > page containing a list of valid prefixes example + 322xxxxxxx is
> > valid, +331xxxxxxxx also but 01xxxxxxxx is not valid in France.
> > Or using something like
> > https://github.com/googlei18n/libphonenumber/
> > https://github.com/googlei18n/libphonenumber/blob/master/FAQ.md#where-do-we-get-information-from-to-determine-if-a-number-range-is-valid
> >
> > Would it also be useful to put a corrective suggestion?
> > for example 01xxxxxxxx #+331xxxxxxxx
> >
> > Of course, I am not talking about the exact form of the list,
> > nor the fact that some countries will have a list,
> > while others not.
> > nor the difficulty when a poi has several corresponding numbers
> > attached several countries.
> > I 'm talking about the general guideline.
> >
> > The aim is not to forbid some values but to allow
> > common editor to guide the user to avoid a very common error.
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