[HOT] Open Location Code

john whelan jwhelan0112 at gmail.com
Sat Aug 11 18:55:52 UTC 2018


 Open Location Code or Plus code is just a method of representing latitude
and longitude in a more human friendly way.
It was originally created by Google but has been released under an open
licence.

It is possible to set osmand to show coordinates as OLC.  This means it can
display the OLC code for any node or building in OpenStreetMap and the
displayed code can be copied to the clipboard.  No extra tagging is
necessary.

OSMand will also accept an OLC code for searching purposes.

It would seem likely that Nominatim will allow searching by OLC in the near
future.

Translation is this allows us to give every dwelling in Africa etc its own
address.  It is not in itself a complete addressing solution since it
doesn't handle things like 2nd floor but it does at least take you to the
building.

To make this work will require training material for example how to turn it
on in OSMand.  It is not turned on by default.

Because it is calculated from the buildings's latitude and longitude it is
embedded in OSM and will not disappear.  It is stable so you can build on
it.

Now you need to think about how it can be used and what additional
resources will be required to make full use of it.

Cheerio John
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