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<p>The problem is the shortening-codes techonology that is a black-box maintained by Google:</p>
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<p>The shortening-code isn’t a black-box. It’s something that’s documentated. It’s however something that relies on some sort of geocoding. In the OSM context, a natural choise for geocoding would be Nominatim.</p>
<p>It might be useful to focus on support only for non-shorted codes at the moment.</p>

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