[talk-au] Phone numbers

[nwastra]

Mapper @tastrax appears to be using a maproulette challenge to fix these, presumably in Tasmania. I am not familiar with the program myself.

Nev

> On 6 Sep 2017, at 8:41 pm, Warin <61sundowner at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> 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> 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
>> 
>> 
>> 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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