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

john whelan jwhelan0112 at gmail.com
Sat Aug 11 15:46:22 UTC 2018


I think what is needed is an independent way to generate them from OSMand
and I think that is part of the missing puzzle.

Cheerio John

On 11 August 2018 at 11:30, Blake Girardot HOT/OSM <
blake.girardot at hotosm.org> wrote:

> On Sat, Aug 11, 2018 at 10:39 AM, Richard Fairhurst
> <richard at systemed.net> wrote:
> > Blake Girardot wrote:
> >> Also: No one is getting paid for anything related to this at this
> >> point. I personally would like to see Google donate to the OSMF
> >> and let the OSMF grant it out to help OSM core and eco system
> >> tools implement OLC native in code as it should be.
> >
> > That's done. Tom has coded it. Months ago. It's 20 lines of code (plus
> > tests), which is a fraction of the bandwidth spent on this thread.
> >
> > https://github.com/tomhughes/openstreetmap-website/commit/
> 2e0a2c67caf64df732f1e14160d5ead96c73a656
> >
> > Everyone in this thread appears to think that what Tom has done - i.e.
> > implementing it in the osm.org client rather than in tags - is a good
> idea,
> > apart from Simon, and even Homer nods sometimes.
> >
> > Tom, understandably, doesn't want to push it live without consensus that
> > it's a good thing
> > (https://github.com/openstreetmap/openstreetmap-website/pull/1818#
> issuecomment-380695939).
> > I reckon this thread is consensus enough and I'm sure Simon can indulge
> us
> > on this one little thing if we promise to uncockup some editor presets in
> > return. :)
> >
> > Richard
> >
>
> Thank you Richard, I did come in late. Some of the really insulting
> comments on that github thread caught my eye and I didn't read back to
> understand the issue fully.
>
> As I said, we'll look at all of this and put a wiki page together.
>
> Getting that pull request merged would be a great first step in
> helping the folks who this matters to explore the use of plus codes.
>
> I see the goolge manager commented on it. And while he makes some
> suggestions, I would rather see exactly what the PR has now be merged
> and we can go from there.
>
> Cheers,
> blake
>
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