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

[Joop Kiefte]

I am an OSM contributor and it actively hurts my work with my African friends in the field that this support is not there. I beg to differ and request you to retract your accusations @woodpeck . Also my practical experience is that much more people use it every day than is visible from a western perspective where good addressing is commonplace. As an Esperanto speaker, a language which wide usage is also mostly invisible, I usually refer to the example of Chinese, literally the largest language around but in many places you might barely if ever see it, because it's not relevant to an English speaker. @bjohas requested this because of work from the field where this is the case and this is a long standing pain point for our work with people with sub-par addressing.

This is an ignorance issue that actively hurts people. Also I have actively added places to OSM using workarounds to make it work (I have a toolkit on my GitHub). This is not a cool thing issue, this is a filling the gaps issue. OLC works for when nothing else is available and at the moment the only thing we do have for that is literally typing in GPS coordinates with all their complications, e.g. lack of inclusion of precision.

I can accept your point of view that you think this is an issue in the way you describe it, but I respectfully disagree with it and I state my opinion here to make it clear that this is far from the majority opinion, so that this may be known and taken into account.

Also I made a tool myself for offline mapless navigation which I can use to document things in the field for OSM editing (and this is how Tchankada in Benin has been documented, and my friends use this daily there). For OSM.org it makes a lot of sense even from the simple perspective of having a more reliable shorthand for GPS coordinates to aid editing, and even without support I am already using that.

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