[HOT] Simple address codes for buildings

Dan S danstowell+osm at gmail.com
Mon Dec 22 16:54:39 UTC 2014


2014-12-22 16:26 GMT+00:00 Tom Gertin <tgertin at gmail.com>:
>> Thanks for sharing your blog post Martin and those are really interesting
>> ideas Andrew. I don't have that much experience with field mapping but
>> integrating what 3 words (w3w) with field papers to simply document
>> addresses using the offline SDK where internet is not available seems
>> fruitful.
>
>    Actually, this could be beneficial for mapping just about any feature if
> the mapper doesn't have a gps, or gps on their phone, or a decent signal.
> They could just annotate a feature on their field papers with the three
> words and know where to digitize it later.

You can't do it without GPS geolocation - it wouldn't be able to tell
you which three words you needed to write down.

Dan



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