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

[Oleksiy Muzalyev]

On 12.08.18 02:59, Martin Koppenhoefer wrote:
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> On 12. Aug 2018, at 01:40, Simon Poole <simon at poole.ch 
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>> People seem to be looking more for unique ids for their dwellings 
>> than something that is dependent on a relatively fine grained 
>> location/coordinate value, of which you may have multiple for one 
>> house. We know this works, it is still a very common system in alpine 
>> regions in Europe.
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> It depends a lot on the details and setting, in Venice, to give an 
> example with a dense urban setting, building entrances are numbered 
> with 4digits, unique within their “sestiere” (literally not quarter 
> but sixth), and it doesn’t work well for finding a place (unless you 
> use a map which has all the numbers). For a quick impression:
> https://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=18/45.44062/12.34087
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> Cheers,
> Martin
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Alpine regions and Venice are probably most orderly, civilized, and 
historically rich places in the world. Alpine villages look like fairy 
tales. A public bus which serve them may have an ultra-modern colored TV 
and air conditioning.

Yes, after two or three generations and functioning educational system, 
maybe. But meanwhile I doubt very much that ids created on the ground, 
lighted plaques, are even remotely feasible in all regions.

I also think that a coding system per se is not necessarily a good 
solution, unless it becomes a universal standard. For example, as the 
HTML or URL for browsers. If two giants the OSM and Google Maps would 
support the open source OLC (plus-codes), it may work. And it could be 
good thing for further innovations in this domain, it could create a 
global market of advanced addressing solutions.

Best regards,

Oleksiy

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