[talk-au] BYO drinks at restaurant

Rob Hunter robertjhunter at gmail.com
Fri Nov 3 02:01:40 UTC 2017


After a bit of digging around I concluded that OsmAnd displays these "plus
codes" as a convenience for the user -- they are not stored in OSM itself.
The coordinates in a format called Open Location Code (OLC) <
http://openlocationcode.com/> that is something like a voice-friendly
description of area coordinates.

I knew about the "Geohash" scheme for coordinates but these were new to me.


On Fri, 3 Nov 2017 at 12:24 Graeme Fitzpatrick <graemefitz1 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> On 3 November 2017 at 09:58, Nick Hocking <nick.hocking at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>>
>> Bing maps (and Bing search) does not know of this string.  Maybe it's
>> proprietary Google information.
>>
>
> I was wondering the same thing, because a Google search on that string of
> data returns a location shown on Google Maps, which is the shop I was
> looking at?
>
> Isn't that a rather strange thing to have connected with OSM?
>
> Or is that an OSMAND matter / problem? I'll head over to that forum, ask
> the question there as well & see if they've got any info?
>
> Thanks
>
> Graeme
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