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

Oleksiy Muzalyev oleksiy.muzalyev at bluewin.ch
Fri Aug 10 06:15:40 UTC 2018


On 10.08.18 00:13, Blake Girardot HOT/OSM wrote:

> This is really cool to hear!
>
> I am a big fan of OLC / Pluse Codes
>
> I passed this thread on to the folks at Google Zurich who created it
> originally, not sure if they still work there or not, we last chatted
> in 2016, but I am sure they will be glad to stop in and answer
> questions if I can raise them.
>
> Cheers
> blake
>
> _______________________________________________
>
I read here https://plus.codes/developers that they work on 
implementations in other languages.

On the practical side, I know that a new driver at a delivery service 
may spend in some cases up to three - four hours to deliver one Internet 
order in a city (I had some interviews with delivery drivers). There are 
new apartment buildings which are not yet in navigators, some houses are 
several hundred meters long [1], etc.

This excessive senseless driving is not only expensive but also harms 
environment. I think it makes sense to implement the OLC as a practical 
attempt to improve the archaic (or absent) street-name & house-number 
address system, to start people realizing that there is a way now to 
specify the exact location over email and over telephone unequivocally, 
so no waste of time and fuel is necessary anymore.

Besides, I assume it was done already technically, - there is the pull 
request already.

About 50% of all traffic is one or another kind of delivery. The OLC may 
improve situation with traffic jams and CO2 pollution, which concerns 
all. If people start using the OLC massively, there will be, most 
probably, further attempts to improve it since it is Open Source.

[1] https://osm.org/go/0iaifBuGU--?m=

Best regards,

Oleksiy




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