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

Simon Poole simon at poole.ch
Sat Aug 11 08:29:13 UTC 2018



Am 11.08.2018 um 01:19 schrieb Martin Koppenhoefer:
> While it is true that both parties have economic interest in this, plus codes are both, free to use and open source, unlike their 3 words competitor. Even if w3w „wins“ we would likely not be interested in promoting them on OSMF servers.
>
Well we support tagging proprietary postcode systems in countries that
have them (say the UK, Ireland and so on), but there it is clear that
they are what is -actually in use-. These post codes tend to legally not
really be different than say w3w codes.

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