[OSM-talk] Working with lat and long simply

[john whelan]

In many parts of the world addresses don't exist.

There are multiple schemes that will create addresses using three words,
etc.

However lat and long exists for everywhere on the planet.

Internally .osm files have the lat and long for every POI.

However dig it out of the xml code and drop it into Nomination and you get
an error.  lat='45.472891' lon='-75.4891002'

What sort of accuracy would we need?  Do we need all the digits?  Can we
build something with a check digit in to help with transposition errors.

Is there some way to be able to dig out the lat and long easily from OSM
for a non technical user?  Something that could be cut and pasted?  and
search for a location using latitude and longitude?

Note none of this cannot be solved technically its more finding a
process(es) to make it more user friendly for those who may not have a PhD
in GIS.

Thanks John
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