[HOT] Open Location Code

[Blake Girardot]

Hi all,

For anyone that would like to visualize that the Open Location Code
grid looks like, I took some screen shots of it overlayed with some
imagery.

The smallest squares in the examples each have a 10 character OLC
number/letter code. You will notice like every grid, the real world is
not on a grid and many structures are in more than one grid. (Every
grid system has this problem).

The next up larger size of square is the square for an 8 character OLC
number/letter code. It obviously groups a lot more buildings together,
almost the small village scale, but again, they will usually be part
in two, just like a structure.

Anyway, thought folks who like to see things visualized in some way to
help understand them might benefit from looking at what exactly we are
talking about.

I would like to see a way to have a better, more informative grid in
all our tools, so like a TMS layer or support in OpenLayers or leaflet
or something. The grid is based on WGS84 degrees already so anything
that helps draw a graticule can just be adapted to have different
major lines and list the shortened OLC instead of the degrees.

https://twitter.com/BlakeGirardot/status/1028689726088388609

Cheers
blake

Cheers
blake

On Sat, Aug 11, 2018 at 2:55 PM, john whelan <jwhelan0112 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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