Add Phone Number to Field Types

[josee-sabourin]

What problem does your proposal solve? Please begin with the relevant issue number. If there is no existing issue, please also describe alternative solutions you have considered.

Phone number is not a defined Field Type however appears as a field type in system_information.json.

What is the proposal?

Add Phone Number as a defined Field Type using E.164 specification (Wikipedia here). Specifying no spaces, hyphens, or parentheses in the phone numbers.

Is this a breaking change?

• Yes
• No
• Unsure

Which files are affected by this change?

• system_information.json

[mplsmitch]

I hereby call a vote on this proposal. Voting will be open for 10 full calendar days until 11:59PM UTC on December 9, 2021.

Please vote for or against the proposal, and include the organization for which you are voting in your comment.

Please note if you can commit to implementing the proposal.

[kanagy]

+1 from Google Maps, but no plan for surfacing phone numbers yet.

[richtaylor-ito]

+1 from Ito World.

[cmonagle]

+1 from Transit

[testower]

Entur supports this proposal

[nbdh]

+1 from nextbike

[heidiguenin]

Voting on this PR closes in 2 calendar days. Please vote for or against the proposal, and include the organization for which you are voting in your comment. Please note if you can commit to implementing the proposal.

[ncancelliere]

+1 from Spin.

[veddan]

+1 from Move About

[heidiguenin]

This vote has now closed, and it passes!

Votes in favor:
Google Maps (consumer)
Ito World (producer)
Transit (consumer)
Entur (consumer)
nextbike (producer)
Spin (producer)
Move About (producer)


There were no votes against.
Thank you to everyone who took the time to review and to vote on this!

We will tag and merge this into v3.0-RC2 in the coming weeks.