[HOT] Open Location Code

[john whelan]

So you could use them as postcode equivalents.  Is any statistical data
available associated with an area?  Such as population etc?  The area used
to collect the data might be a better choice.

Cheerio John

On Sun, 12 Aug 2018, 1:20 pm Blake Girardot, <bgirardot at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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