[Tagging] Feature Proposal - Voting - (phone)

[Joseph Eisenberg]

> Whatever else may have been changed in this proposal, the number format
wasn't one of those changes

Sorry, I didn't realize this. I was reading the proposal and assumed
that the "Content" section was supposed to be different.

Valor Naram, could you clarify what specific changes will be made to
the page, based on approval of this proposal? Is it just rewording, or
are there any significant changes to how the tag is used?

- Joseph

On 10/21/19, Paul Allen <pla16021 at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, 21 Oct 2019 at 00:58, Warin <61sundowner at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> On 21/10/19 09:52, Joseph Eisenberg wrote:
>> >
>> > 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.
>>
>
> I've been mapping for around 2 years now, and the wiki for phone=*
> specified ITU format
> back then.  Whatever else may have been changed in this proposal, the
> number format
> wasn't one of those changes.
>
> --
> Paul
>