[Talk-GB] Google "Plus Code" Locators

[David Woolley]

On 28/02/2022 15:11, Mark Goodge wrote:
> Both of those look for the search string in their database, so unless 
> any particular OLC is in one or both of them then it won't show up.

The search box already recognizes latitude,longitude pairs, which also 
won't appear in tags.


> 
> The algorithm for the full code is open (licensed under the the
> Apache
License), but the short form remains proprietary to Google -

  there's no
way to reliably get the locality name without using their API.

The short codes can be used in two ways.  With the locality they are 
global, but need the Google maps to be certain of finding the correct 
locality, but they are also relative to the current location, so, for 
navigating within a single city, I think they will normally be 
unambiguous.  They won't, I think, repeat at much less than 50km in the UK.