[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 17:59:30 UTC 2018


On 10.08.18 20:46, Christoph Hormann wrote:
> 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.
>
what3words is a proprietary commercial approach. The OLC is Open Source, 
and it is used at the Google Maps for almost three years.

If OLC generating and search are implemented at the OSM, it would become 
sort of an universal open source standard.

As for using it in tags, if one clicks at another part of the same 
building the OLC code would be different. And what if one wants to have 
a constant legal address?





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