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

[john whelan]

Think about what you have just said.  If I have an internet connection
available and I'm running JOSM how would I find them if Nominatim  wasn't
available.

Cheerio John

On Thu, 9 Aug 2018, 6:28 pm Yves, <yvecai at mailbox.org> wrote:

> 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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