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

john whelan jwhelan0112 at gmail.com
Fri Aug 10 12:58:53 UTC 2018


I would agree the import should be reverted.  The data is redundant and
there is a danger that it might not be correct.  The pure lat and long data
already in OSM can be used to calculate the code.

It does add weight to the idea of making them searchable perhaps with a
JOSM plugin and support in OSMand for off line use and Nominatim for on
line use.

Cheerio John

On Fri, 10 Aug 2018, 8:50 am Michael Reichert, <osm-ml at michreichert.de>
wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Am 2018-08-09 um 22:48 schrieb Vao Matua:
> > 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.
> > https://www.openstreetmap.org/changeset/59213224
> >
> > The Python code on Github works great to calculate Plus Codes.
> >
> > We did used these tags:
> > addr:pluscode:full  (the 8+2 digit full Plus Code)
> > addr:pluscode:area (the first 4 digits of the full Plus Code which is a 1
> > degree by 1 degree lat long area)
> > addr:pluscode:local (the second 4 digits + last 2 digits which used with
> a
> > local name becomes the local address)
>
> There is no need for this data in OSM because the data can be retrieved
> automatically from latitude and longitude (plain coordinates) which are
> already assigned to anything which has a location on the planet.
>
> Adding Plus Code tags to OSM objects is as useful as adding latitude=*
> and longitude=* or any other coordinate system which can be calculated
> from latitude and longitude.
>
> This import should be reverted.
>
> Best regards
>
> Michael
>
>
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