[talk-au] Phone boxes

[Brendan Barnes]

No harm in asking for the dataset :)

Should these nodes be amenity=telephone or emergency=phone? Can you use
these units to call any number other than emergency services?

"emergency=phone - for public emergency telephones. Phones which are more
intended for, or only work for, calling the emergency services, e.g. those
provided on motorways"
https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:amenity%3Dtelephone#Similar_tags


On Mon, 17 May 2021 at 14:53, Graeme Fitzpatrick <graemefitz1 at gmail.com>
wrote:

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> On Mon, 17 May 2021 at 13:05, cleary <osm at 97k.com> wrote:
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>> I have usually mapped roadside public phones as :  amenity=telephone
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> Which is what I also do.
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> I noticed though that the defaults (?), in iD at least, include the option
> of a Booth type, which started me wondering?
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> Also looked at one of the links ^, which shows the locations of PTs.
> Amazed to see that it lists an actual phone number for each phone! When I
> worked for T, way back when, that was a secret (which was hard for even
> staff to find out :-)), & which was *never* to be given out to the public!
>
> May contact T & see if they are willing for us to get access to that info?
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> Thanks
>
> Graeme
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