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

[Andrew Hain]

This looks to be very comfortably within the computational ability of mobile phone apps (“You could calculate it with AI” is a much less attractive deletionist argument) so everyone who has implemented it by conerting coordinates on the fly would seem to be doing the right thing.

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Andrew
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From: Paul Norman <penorman at mac.com>
Sent: 10 August 2018 23:00:39
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Subject: Re: [OSM-talk] Is it technically and legally possible to add the Open Location Code to the OSM search?

On 2018-08-10 1:06 PM, Blake Girardot HOT/OSM wrote:
> Learning the real world use cases and where the proper technological
> solutions work and if there really genuinely are places where dynamic
> generation is just not possible.
>
> This seems totally in line with things done in the past and should
> work well here.

Speaking as a developer, it's much easier to add PlusCode support
properly than to try and parse another address tag. Don't add them
thinking it makes it easier.

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