[talk-au] "Wrong" phone numbers

[Graeme Fitzpatrick]

Thanks!

Both wikis & the Oz guidelines updated appropriately:
https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Australian_Tagging_Guidelines/Australian_features#Phonewords

Thanks

Graeme


On Sun, 25 Sept 2022 at 11:48, stevea <steveaOSM at softworkers.com> wrote:

> Solutions abound!
>
> There is a pesky "only in this country toll-free dialing" sort of thing
> that is a number domestically (AU only) and then what appears to be its
> international number, something in NANPA's 710, or what is a moldy-oldy US
> federal government "thing" with exactly one working number (as of 2006).
> So, there is some sort of "error" somewhere.  Some places that allow these
> do not allow any non-domestic / international way of accessing this
> telephonic address, there isn't any bridging.  We have this in the states,
> you have this in AU, it is different all over the place.
>
> I think phone:AU:mnemonic might be a good start of something.
>
> If you put a plus sign in front of it in your country to say
> "international number" it begins +61.  That's simply "Australia."  It goes
> up and down from there!
>
> I wrinkle my brow at that +1-710-55 number, that's bogosity.  Maybe that
> works in another country or somewhere, but then you wouldn't put a + in
> front of it; that's an "international" phone # notation.  +1-710 (I live in
> NANPA-land, which is that first "1" and know it exists) is a dead-end.
> Maybe somebody encoded their domestic (to Oz) dialing pattern, I don't
> know.  But something is misunderstood here.
>
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