[OSM-talk] Phone numbers in OSM

[Florian Lohoff]

On Wed, Aug 20, 2008 at 01:18:44PM -0400, simon at mungewell.org wrote:
> > I hate to be the one to disagree, but (obviously) I think that there
> > should be the ability to add phone numbers to the database and transfer
> > these to PIO on a GPS map.
> 
> Just thinking further on this. The original request was that mkgmap
> supported the 'phone' tag. This doesn't necessarily mean that the phone
> number _has_ to be included in the OSM database. The '.osm' file can be
> pre-processed before rendering '.img' file.
> 
> I am imagining that I'll also be building a contour '.osm' file for the
> respective area and merging that with the real file '.osm'. So adding more
> PIO information would not be a huge headache, but it would be nicer to
> have them in the database....

In the end you want businesses to edit their informations themself if at
all possible. To get them to use JOSM or potlatch might be a little
overkill. Rather give them some kind of yellowpages which then get
linked into the OSM. The map converter could then drag together whatever
informations appropriate. It might be necessary to tag informations in
the yellow pages very strict to make phone numbers always be with
international prefix etc - otherwise it might be difficult to get them
to work in car manufacturers navi systems.

For example map24.de does not even map the businesses to their real
position on the map but rather simply uses an address location
approximator. So you dont have an explicit link but only an address.

Flo
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Florian Lohoff                  flo at rfc822.org             +49-171-2280134
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