Key:contact

contact
Description
The prefix for several contact:* keys to describe contacts. Should not be used as a key.
Group: Addresses
Used on these elements
Useful combination
contact: taginfo contact:*
See also
phone=* fax=* email=* website=* addr=*
Status: in use
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The prefix for several contact:*=* keys to describe contacts.

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.

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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): +<country_code> <national_destination_code> <subscriber_number>-<direct_inward_dialing>

Contact

Key	Value	Element	Comment	Taginfo	Photo
Contact details
contact:phone	+44 11223 456-789		phone number ( DIN 5008 format: +<country_code> <national_destination_code> <subscriber_number>-<direct_inward_dialing>). See also more popular phone=*.)
contact:mobile	+44 11223 456-789		separate mobile phone number. The more general tag contact:phone=* should be preferred
contact:fax	+44 11223 456-789		fax number ( DIN 5008 format: +<country_code> <national_destination_code> <subscriber_number>-<direct_inward_dialing>) . See also more popular fax=*).
contact:tty	+44 11223 456-789		tty (Teletypewriter) number
contact:website	http://example.com		Website-url (see also more popular website=*)
contact:email	mail@example.com		E-mail address (see also more popular email=*)
Key	Value	Element	Comment	Taginfo	Photo
Social media, messengers, web services
contact:facebook	full facebook URL		Facebook 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 facebook=*)
contact:vk	VK.com		VK link to social network service
contact:instagram	Username		Instagram account name or full URL
contact:twitter	@OpenStreetMap		Twitter account name or full URL (see also twitter=*)
contact:youtube	Youtube account/channel URL		YouTube 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: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:telegram	https://t.me/Example 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:linkedin	Username		LinkedIn account name or full URL
contact:pinterest	Pinterest URL		Pinterest URL officially used by the POI.
contact:viber	+44 11223 456-789		Viber account name (phone number) or full URL
contact:foursquare	https://foursquare.com/v/Example		Foursquare account name (hash) or full URL
contact:skype	SkypeName		Skype login name
contact:xing	Username		XING account name or full URL
contact:vhf	VHF Channel or Frequency		Of interest for maritime and airport services
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:mastodon	username@server.example		Mastodon social network handle or full URL
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:user_defined	user defined		All commonly used namespace keys according to Taginfo
Key	Value	Element	Comment	Taginfo	Photo
Mail address
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: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: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:pobox	Post Box Number		Companies and organizations sometimes have a Post Office Box (P.O. Box/ PO Box) to send mail to instead of to their physical address. See also addr:postbox=*

This table is a wiki template with a default description in English. Editable here.

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

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:*
• Operator further details - subkeys used to add further detail about the operator
• emergency:phone=* - A phone number for emergencies associated with the object
• OpenLinkMap - A slippy map, making this tag's data available as clickable POIs
• 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
• addr:*=* - The addr tag is the prefix for several addr:* keys to describe addresses