[Talk-ca] Preferred phone number format

[Matthew Darwin]

Just FYI, I am not doing an automated edit.  One at a time in JOSM.

On 2018-01-28 10:23 PM, Stewart C. Russell wrote:
> On 2018-01-28 08:22 PM, Matthew Darwin wrote:
>> 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?
> Please use the ITU standard: it's international, and so are we. You
> never know what country an OSM user will be coming from.
>
> The great advantage to having the +1 in a number is that Canadian cell
> phones won't give you the stupid "This is a long distance call …" spiel
> if you include it.
>
> Thanks for looking at this - but as with any automated edit, please take
> care.
>
>   Stewart
>
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