[Talk-ca] Preferred phone number format

[James]

personally I prefer:

RFC 3966/NANP <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NANP> pattern

as its more commonly used for telephone numbers(less the country
code(unless long distance). Especially in white pages(back in the day we
had paper copies)

On Jan 28, 2018 8:24 PM, "Matthew Darwin" <matthew at mdarwin.ca> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> Is there a preferred phone number format we use in Canada?
>
> I noticed a bunch of phone numbers in Ottawa don't follow the
> recommendations in https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:phone, namely:
>
>    - phone=*number* where the *number* should be in international (ITU-T
>    E.164 <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E.164>) format
>       - phone=+<country code> <area code> <local number>, following the ITU-T
>       E.123 <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E.123> and the DIN 5008
>       <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/de:DIN_5008> pattern
>       - (phone=+<country code>-<area code>-<local number>, following the
>       RFC 3966/NANP <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NANP> pattern)
>
> Is there a preference which of these formats is used?   Can anyone run a
> query and see which is more popular in the country?
>
> The reason I'm asking is that since a bunch of phone numbers leave off the
> +1 (and have other errors), I want to align them to the recommended
> format.   I am wondering if I should have them in the format of "+1 999 555
> 1234" or "+1-999-555-1234".    If there is no existing preference adopted
> in OSM Canada, I will use the latter to cleanup the non-compliant phone
> numbers.
>
> Comments?
>
> I am also assuming we prefer "phone" over "contact:phone" as per
> https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:contact
>
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