[OSM-talk] Working with lat and long simply

[john whelan]

I think 2-5 meters per century is acceptable and means lat / long is an
acceptable method but since some houses are less than this in width it
would probably be an idea to refresh the address once in a while.

Cheerio John

On 10 September 2016 at 15:02, Oleksiy Muzalyev <oleksiy.muzalyev at bluewin.ch
> wrote:

> On 10/09/16 20:46, john whelan wrote:
>
>>
>> I see to recall that Australia is on the move.  So it would seem that we
>> should retain as much accuracy as possible then if we're a metre out it
>> isn't quite so important.
>>
>> I think any generic addressing scheme is going to suffer from parts of
>> the world moving though and it is a limitation we have to work with.  From
>> a practical point of view just grabbing a new address every decade would
>> probably work fairly well.
>>
>> Cheerio John
>>
>> I wish an address could be more stable than a decade, as it should be
> used also in property documents. If it is 2 - 5 meters per century, then it
> is still acceptable.
>
> I wonder how "three words" services plan to deal with it? Recalculating
> coordinates behind the scene? But in a century there will be probably no
> these services, and no Internet as we know it. It is a lot of time. But
> latitude and longitude will still exist. And it would be possible to
> recalculate them taking into account the tectonic plates factual movement
> to prove property rights.
>
> Best regards,
> Oleksiy
>
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