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Prefix
contact:*
Description
The contact:* keys describe contact information.
Group:
annotations
Used on these
elements
See also
phone
=*
fax
=*
mobile
=*
email
=*
website
=*
addr:*
=*
Status:
in use
taginfo:
contact:*
This page describes a
key prefix
rather than a simple
key
The prefix for several
contact:*
=*
keys to describe contact information.
Contents
Values
1.1
Contact
1.1.1
Contact details
1.1.2
Social media, messengers, web services
1.1.3
Mail address
Addressing scheme in France
Existing tagging schemes
See also
External Links
References
Values
You should only add contact information to POIs and not to any
private address
Email-addresses which are only available on a website after solving a captcha, or which are in other ways obfuscated to protect against SPAM-bots should not be tagged in OSM. The same applies to fax and phone numbers.
This article or section contains
questionable, contentious
or
controversial information
. See the
talk page
for more information.
Some details below are
incompatible
with phone numbers outside of Germany or when written in languages other than German.
What is used here: phone and fax number format (
DIN 5008
):
+
Contact
Key
Value
Element
Comment
Taginfo
Photo
Contact details
contact:phone
+44 11223 456-789
Telephone number
DIN 5008
format:
+
). See also the more popular
phone
=*
.)
contact:website
Website
-url (see also the more popular
website
=*
and
website:*
=*
contact:email
mail@example.com
E-mail address
(see also the more popular
email
=*
contact:fax
+44 11223 456-789
A dedicated telephone number connecting to a
telefacsimile (fax) machine
. See also the more popular
fax
=*
).
contact:mobile
+44 11223 456-789
A telephone number connecting to a
mobile phone
. The more general tag
contact:phone
=*
should be preferred.
contact:tty
+44 11223 456-789
A dedicated telephone number connecting to a
teletypewriter (tty)
contact:sms
+44 11223 456-789
A dedicated telephone number that receives SMS text messages, but does not have voice-calling capability.
Key
Value
Element
Comment
Taginfo
Photo
Social media, messengers, web services
contact:facebook
full facebook URL or FacebookUserName
profile - preferably the full URL (because there are many different kinds of pages in facebook), though simply the public username is also used. (see also
=*
contact:instagram
contact:threads
full Instagram URL or InstagramUserName
account name (also used on
Threads
) or full Instagram URL
contact:vk
VK.com
VK
link to social network service
contact:max
max.ru
Max
account name or full URL or
Max
number officially used by the POI.
contact:twitter
OpenStreetMap
account name or full URL (see also
=*
contact:youtube
Youtube account/channel URL
URL of account or channel officially used by the POI. Sometimes only the YouTube username is indicated.
contact:ok
ok URL
ok
link to social network service.
contact:linkedin
Username
account name or full URL
contact:telegram
or Telegram number
Telegram
account name or full URL or
Telegram
number officially used by the POI.
contact:whatsapp
WhatsApp number
WhatsApp
number officially used by the POI.
contact:webcam
webcam URL
For denoting a webcam's location, use a node with the tag
surveillance:type
camera
. See also
Webcams
for more information
contact:viber
+44 11223 456-789
Viber
account name (phone number) or full URL
contact:tiktok
Username
account name or full URL
contact:skype
SkypeName
Skype
login name
contact:pinterest
Pinterest URL
Pinterest
URL officially used by the POI.
contact:foursquare
Foursquare
account name (hash) or full URL
contact:xing
Username
XING
account name or full URL
contact:mastodon
@username@server.example
Mastodon
social network handle or full URL
contact:bluesky
blueskyUsername.domain.name
Bluesky
social network handle or full URL
contact:line
Line ID
Line
ID or URL
contact:flickr
Flickr URL
Flickr
URL. Similar to all others, this is where the POI can be officially contacted, or where they broadcast information. This should not point to a self-taken photo depicting the POI.
contact:vhf
VHF Channel or Frequency
Of interest for maritime and airport services
contact:vimeo
full Vimeo URL or username
Vimeo
full URL or account name.
contact:wechat
wechat ID
Wechat
ID
contact:matrix
@username:server.example
or
#room:server.example
Matrix
social network handle
contact:sip
sip@example.com
SIP address
contact:diaspora
username@server.example
Diaspora
social network handle or full URL
contact:gnusocial
username@server.example
GNU Social
social network handle or full URL
contact:xiaohongshu
Xiaohongshu URL
Xiaohongshu
social network handle or full URL
contact:mobilizon
@username@example.com or
Mobilizon
social network handle or full URL
contact:tripadvisor
YYYYYYY
Tripadvisor
contact:user_defined
user defined
All commonly used namespace keys
according to
Taginfo
Key
Value
Element
Comment
Taginfo
Photo
Mail address
contact:street
street name
For use when the contact address is not the same as the address of the physical location.
For denoting the street name where a POI is located, see also
addr:street
=*
contact:housenumber
housenumber
For use when the contact address is not the same as the address of the physical location. (Status: "draft"
For denoting the housenumber where a POI is located, see also
addr:housenumber
=*
contact:postcode
postcode
For use when the contact address is not the same as the address of the physical location.
For denoting the postcode number where a POI is located, see also
addr:postcode
=*
contact:city
city name
For use when the contact address is not the same as the address of the physical location.
For denoting the city name where a POI is located, see also
addr:city
=*
contact:country
country
For use when the contact address is not the same as the address of the physical location.
For denoting the country where a POI is located, see also
addr:country
=*
contact:pobox
Post Box Number
Companies and organizations sometimes have a
post office box
(P.O. Box) to receive mail instead of to their physical address. The value should contain the box number as well as a post office identifier, such as a post code. Note this may be different from
addr:postcode
=*
USPS Post office boxes 1
This table is a wiki template with a default description in English.
Editable here
Overpass Turbo query (2022-02-04) showing the use of
contact:
keys on POI addresses in France: nearly 18000 locations listed.
Addressing scheme in France
Note that in France (especially),
contact:housenumber
keys are mostly used on POIs to add their addresses without consideration of whether the physical address is different from the postal address but instead of
addr:
keys reserved for mapping addresses as unique features.
This usage is relatively widespread, mostly in France (+65000 POI's), it has not yet (2025-02-13) been approved by the community.
contact:housenumber
More details at tag
info
More details at tag
info
More about this practice:
A draft about this usage called "
Schéma de Charlieu
" can be found on the OSM wiki.
cartes.app
Organic Maps
or
CartoVrac
displays POI's
contact:
addresses when they exist.
JOSM user preset
called "Charlieu Schema for POI's" exists for easy addition of POI's addresses and other contact information with
contact:
prefix keys.
Existing tagging schemes
For the most common keys, the
shorter
version outside the 'contact' scheme is used more frequently:
phone
=*
fax
=*
email
=*
and
website
=*
, with other contact tags used rarely outside the namespace scheme. Both schemes have been in use for a long time and still exist in parallel. Many applications are able to use both of them.
At the same time a proposal to deprecate
contact:phone
=*
was not successful -
Discussions/tagging/contact:phone or phone
. Idea of deprecating either tags without contact: prefix or ones with contact prefix is repeatedly suggested, often triggering huge discussion and ending with conclusion that there is no consensus. Please, read past discussion before starting a new one
Popularity of
phone
=*
and
contact:phone
=*
indicating ongoing and uninterrupted preference of simple tagging scheme over contact: prefix, see also
which is most probably induced by
editor
presets
There were also attempts to deprecate, mechanically retag or promote either version of many other contact tags
See also
phone
=*
- A telephone number associated with the object
website
=*
- Specifying the link to the official website for a feature
email
=*
- An email address associated with the object
url
=*
- Specifying an url related to a feature
fax
=*
- A fax number associated with the object
Bremen Schema
- A schema that proposes to add contact information about a POI to the node via using contact:* instead of adding addr:*
Charlieu Schema
- Like the Bremen Schema, quite popular in France and Western Europe.
Key:operator#Further details
- subkeys used to add further detail about the operator
emergency:phone
=*
- A phone number for emergencies associated with the object
addr:*
=*
- addr is the prefix for several addr:* keys to describe addresses
object:*
=*
- Used to describe the position of man-made features where nothing will be delivered at. Address tagging for those features that shouldn't be tagged with the `addr` prefix
External Links
OpenLinkMap
- A slippy map, making this tag's data available as clickable POIs. (Dead link.
Latest archived copy
on Web Archive, retrieved on 2024-07-15)
JOSM preset
wikipedia:Telephone numbering plan
wikipedia:List of country calling codes
wikipedia:E.164
(ITU-T recommendation on how to save phone numbers)
OmniROM devs will use OSM phone numbers
(Dead link.
Latest archived copy
on Web Archive, retrieved on 2024-07-15)
OSM Phone Number Validation
References
The domain in a Mastodon handle usually matches the domain in the full URL, but some instances use a different domain for the Web application versus their users' handles.
[1]
- December 2019 thread
August 2019 Thread
- May 2020 thread, over 50 messages
January 2022 thread
Contact:website / website / url
Proposed features/Social media contact prefix
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