[talk-au] Phone numbers

[Warin]

I've had a small look at what is presently in the data base.
There are a lot of phone numbers in there!
I got a time out when I tried all of NSW, and reduced it down to Sydney 
and only nodes (no ways or relationships).
Some 637. I had not expected so many!
A small look and about half have +61 - leaving a rather large quantity 
in 'error'.
There will be a way of not downloading any with the leading prefix of +61.
It would be a small matter to write a script that would add the correct 
prefix to these, being careful of the respective area codes.
(spotted one with 61 - no leading +, there will be some with the area 
code 02 and the quantity of numbers would need to be tested to avoid 
obvious errors/software confusion)

On 06-Sep-17 02:45 PM, Andrew Harvey wrote:
> All the numbers I've added include the +61 and drop off the leading 
> zero from the area code or mobile. This makes the number work from 
> wherever it is dialed and makes it universally unique.
>
> So +1 to this format when tagging in OSM and noting this in the 
> Australian Guidelines wiki.
>
> On 6 Sep 2017 2:37 PM, "Warin" <61sundowner at gmail.com 
> <mailto:61sundowner at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     Hi,
>
>
>     On the tagging list it has come up that 'we' should be using
>     international dialling codes for the phone numbers.
>
>
>     I'm not certain how many OZ mappers would be aware of these ..
>
>     and I think this should be documented on the wiki page
>     http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Australian_Tagging_Guidelines
>     <http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Australian_Tagging_Guidelines>
>
>
>     Test
>
>     How many would know how to call a cell phone number from overseas?
>
>
>     Answer
>
>     Drop the leading 0 and prefix with +61
>
>     +61 4 xx xxx xxx
>
>
>     Same thing for 'our' local codes 02 becomes +61 2 xxxx xxxx.
>
>
>     I know my phone number additions are all local - no ISD or even
>     regional codes.
>
>
>     Thoughts?
>
>
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