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

[Jo]

I would think that if you are in the field, apps like OsmAnd and Maps.ME
can show you the OLC address of where you are.

If you want to see a grid in JOSM or iD, it should be trivial to either
show them as transparent imagery, or in the case of JOSM, have a plugin
draw the grid and show it as an extra layer you can toggle on or off.

I also don't see a reason to add the OLC codes in tags in the database,
even if marked on a building.

If I paint the coordinates of my house on it, are you going to map that
too? And if so, would you add them to lon and lat tags or to addr:housename?

Polyglot

Op ma 13 aug. 2018 om 18:23 schreef Blake Girardot HOT/OSM <
blake.girardot at hotosm.org>:

> Hi Tom,
>
> This is an example of the first way I and I think others in the
> humanitarian world need to use OLCs to evaluate them for what they can
> or can not solve for humanitarian and other use cases:
>
> https://twitter.com/BlakeGirardot/status/1028689726088388609
>
> We need to deal with them at scale, not at the "look up" an individual
> address process which is trivial to solve.
>
> That is really the first step, for folks to learn the grid and it's
> inherent scale steps and how that translates into OLC codes of various
> lengths.
>
> Cheers,
> blake
>
>
>
> On Mon, Aug 13, 2018 at 11:23 AM, Tom Lee <tlee at mapbox.com> wrote:
> > I'm surprised to see that this conversation has made it past the weekend.
> > Since it has, let me add my voice to those suggesting that encoding OLC
> in
> > the database (or any other values that can be algorithmically derived
> from
> > geometry) makes very little sense. I'm grateful to everyone who has
> already
> > made this point, in various ways and with various levels of forcefulness.
> >
> > If the folks advocating for OLC would like to walk through the rationale
> > some more or explore alternative ways of getting OLC into their
> workflow, I
> > suspect that a number of people on this thread would be happy to talk
> > through it, myself included. Please don't hesitate to email.
> >
> > Tom
> >
> >
> >
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