[OSM-talk] Phone numbers in OSM

[Florian Lohoff]

On Wed, Aug 20, 2008 at 03:54:56PM +0200, Lulu-Ann at gmx.de wrote:
> 
> I am definitively against phone numbers in OSM. On many communities on the internet
> publishing phone numbers and email adresses is not welcome because wrong
> numbers can't be found easily and people suffering from such phone calls will
> be really annoyed.
> Please use the WEBSITE tag - nobody will be annoyed by an error in a URL
> and if a phone number changes the sitemaster will take care and not the mapper.
> If there is no website for the amenity, you can add the URL of the search result of
> the yellow pages.

The point will be that one day you need the yellow-pages machine
readable link. E.g. every car navigation will show you the next 20
hotels surrounding you and will offer the numbers and addresses.

I do agree though that these informations should not be the scope of OSM
but there should be some possibility to link them.

Flo
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Florian Lohoff                  flo at rfc822.org             +49-171-2280134
	Those who would give up a little freedom to get a little 
          security shall soon have neither - Benjamin Franklin
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