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

[Christoph Hormann]

On Friday 10 August 2018, Blake Girardot wrote:
> [...]
>
> Let us find a local community that is asking for this and give it a
> trial there.

I read this as "lets find some country with no sufficiently organized 
local community to resists and push this nonsense idea of adding 
encoded coordinates as tags to features there in a hope to sneak this 
into OSM".  This is exactly the arrogant and abusive approach 
what3words used for their proprietary system.

The idea of tagging encoded coordinates is so ridiculous to anyone with 
a bit of understanding of computer programming, data processing and 
data maintainance that even after ignoring all the arguments in 
substance that have been voiced this should be universally rejected if 
for no other reason then because it would make OSM the laughing stock 
of the whole geodata world.

-- 
Christoph Hormann
http://www.imagico.de/