[openstreetmap/openstreetmap-website] Add OpenLocationCode to OSM website (#1807)

[Bjoern]

Hi @ppKrauss,

"The problem is the shortening-codes technology that is a black-box maintained by Google".

My interpretation of the link https://github.com/google/open-location-code/wiki/Guidance-for-shortening-codes is different. I interpret it as follows: 

<blockquote>Anybody is free to pick a reference point and shorten the code accordingly. There isn't just one "right reference point" for shortening the code. So instead of  6889CW6G+6X I could use "Quatro Bocas sandwich shop, Altamira, Brazil, CW6G+6X ". 

That's how we use the code: We pick a village as reference, and buildings then acquire short codes accordingly. The precise location of the village doesn't matter: as long as you don't stray too far, you can find the village (and the short code is the same, irrespective of reference point). 

To use shortcodes with google maps, sure I need to use points that google maps knows about. To use shortcodes with OSM, I can enter the POI that I care about (as long as that POI is genuine and map-worth of course), and then shorten the code accordingly.</blockquote>

This is not advice or a correction to your post: It's a different interpretation of https://github.com/google/open-location-code/wiki/Guidance-for-shortening-codes. If you post your comment to https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposal_Open_Location_Code, then I can post my view as well! 

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