[OSM-talk] Is it technically and legally possible to add the Open Location Code to the OSM search?

[Yves]

If those codes can be encoded and decoded offline, it should be dealt with offline by the client, not a server-side application like Nominatim.
Yves 

Le 10 août 2018 00:04:56 GMT+02:00, Vao Matua <vaomatua at gmail.com> a écrit :
>I use Plus Codes with OSMand offline and it works well. If we are
>worried
>about the number of tags we should remove all tags and convince
>everyone to
>just use lat/long.
>The ability to verbally tell someone a location like 47RP+XG
>Dar-es-Salaam
>is much easier than -6.85748/39.28613
>Suspend disbelief, sometimes new things are better.
>
>On Thu, Aug 9, 2018 at 2:57 PM, john whelan <jwhelan0112 at gmail.com>
>wrote:
>
>> So if OSMand or some such could handle them in a search off line that
>> would be acceptable?  They are generated from long and lat after all.
>>
>> My feeling is adding them to Nominatim is not a perfect solution as
>it
>> implies OpenStreetMap supports them rather than something else but
>from a
>> practical point of view it would solve a lot of problems.  Not least
>the
>> idea that tags get added to every building with some sort of address
>code.
>> How many different codes for buildings are we going to see?
>>
>> Currently locally addr: has number, postcode and street name so its
>> difficult to logically say its one rule for one country and another
>for a
>> different one.
>>
>> Cheerio John
>>
>> On 9 August 2018 at 17:40, Vao Matua <vaomatua at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> It is a good idea for the unconnected part of the world. If you have
>>> access to a website you might as well use three-silly-words.
>>> If you have a stand-alone app with the Plus Codes on the buildings
>then
>>> someone can easily communicate that information.
>>> Internet connectivity is not world wide.
>>>
>>> On Thu, Aug 9, 2018 at 2:27 PM, Frederik Ramm <frederik at remote.org>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> On 08/09/2018 10:48 PM, Vao Matua wrote:
>>>> > The Tanzania Development trust has calculated the Plus Code
>addresses
>>>> > for 17 million building points in Tanzania and have added a
>sample
>>>> > village (1800 points) as a test.
>>>>
>>>> This is not a good idea. Please don't do it. It does not make
>sense! If
>>>> someone searches for a plus code on a web site, the site can
>compute the
>>>> lat/lon and take you there, WITHOUT having to add billions of plus
>code
>>>> points all over the word.
>>>>
>>>> Bye
>>>> Frederik
>>>>
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