[OSM-talk] Phone numbers in OSM

[paul youlten]

Yellowikis likes this kind of information.

http://yellowikis.wikia.org


On Wed, Aug 20, 2008 at 7:06 AM, Stefan Neufeind <
openstreetmap at stefan-neufeind.de> wrote:

> Florian Lohoff wrote:
> > 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.
>
> I agree. But in the meantime imho where available we should at least add
> that information to have them available in a clear and structured way
> together with the POIs. If at a later step we decide to split off
> certain information (opening hours, descriptions, ratings, ...) into a
> separate POI-database or something, then we're ready to go.
>
>
> Regards,
>   Stefan
>
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