All examples should use valid postal codes and valid area codes for real towns, with fake street addresses and fake local phone numbers

[TallTed]

I believe I've supplied sufficient detail on individual cases for the general rules to be clear (e.g., 555-01xx local numbers within North America; other regions will have other reserved local ranges), but let me know if not.

[BenjaminMoe]

In cases of cities: area code can be real. Local code should always be ###-555-####.
Specifically with test over data, we don't want tests that run over example data would cause a real number to ring.

[nissimsan]

Awaiting volunteers to pick this up.

[TallTed]

Learned recently -- ChatGPT can be used to generate sample data for a schema/ontology/vocabulary. It will only consume small-ish documents, but large docs can be fed via https://chatgptsplitter.com/.

[rhofvendahl]

Going through and looking up postal code and area code for every location would take some time, and I'm not confident the benefits would be worth it. Is the idea that having arbitrary codes would confuse software working with the data? Having written some scripts like this I wouldn't blindly trust the legitimacy of the examples regardless.

The ChatGPT example generation does look very interesting and potentially awesome for our examples, but I doubt their codes would line up either and it seems like that'd belong in a separate issue.

[TallTed]

I doubt their codes would line up either

Why do you doubt this?

[rhofvendahl]

I was about to say that I generally don't use gpt for anything factual or specific, but gpt4 just gave me 10 fictional addresses along with appropriate postal codes and area codes - color me impressed!

That makes this a bit less time consuming, but I personally I don't have the bandwidth so am un-assigning myself.