Re: [Gnumed-devel] urb and area code

[J Busser]

At 5:44 PM +0200 9/19/04, Karsten Hilbert wrote:
> Are there countries where one urb has more than one area code
> for phone dialling ?  Eg. where one would say of two people
> that they live in the same town but have different area
> dialling prefixes ?

This affects us in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada and I believe 
also in Toronto, Ontario, Canada to accommodate all the fax, cel 
phone and pager numbers, maybe in other large cities as well.

In Vancouver, the traditional area code had been 604. A couple of 
years ago 778 was introduced to augment the numbers in Vancouver, and 
is in use by some people. There is no physical or geographic 
constraint within the city to one or the other.

Therefore in this scenario, a default at the urb level may be partly 
helpful, because it is most common, and over time if a second area 
code became more common, I suppose that could become the default.

Putting it at the street level may not help in my case, though it may 
help others.

Would work to support both under the following rule:

if a non-null, non-blank default exists at the street level, use it 
(i.e. as an over-ride), in place of any existing default value at the 
urb level.