Florian Lohoff wrote: > On Wed, Aug 20, 2008 at 03:54:56PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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 _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk