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

[Christoph Hormann]

On Saturday 11 August 2018, mmd wrote:
>
> With all due respect, I think we've long crossed that point:
>
> https://taginfo.openstreetmap.org/keys/KSJ2%3Alat
> https://taginfo.openstreetmap.org/keys/ngbe%3Alat_ed50
> https://taginfo.openstreetmap.org/keys/gns%3ALAT
> https://taginfo.openstreetmap.org/keys/latitude

I hope you are aware that you are defending a bad tagging idea with the 
existence of other bad tagging ideas.

While pointless tags added by imports are an unnecessary burden to data 
maintainance and bad for the reputation of OSM since they demonstrate a 
lack of quality control for imports in OSM they are not even remotely 
as damaging as would be the deliberate large scale addition of encoded 
coordinates as tags to millions of features.

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