[OSM-talk] Open Location Code and Graffiti

[john whelan]

It sounds an odd combination but locally you can report Graffiti to the
municipality and they arrange for it to be cleaned up by the phone company,
electric company etc.

The targeted electric boxes are often at the back of houses or on stretches
of highway that have no houses which means describing exactly where they
are becomes problematical.  200 meters south of the X Y junction on the
north side of the highway.

When reporting I use JOSM to pick up the street name from OSM then cut and
paste it into the Web form.  I invariably make mistakes when trying to type
in names such as Bottriell Way.

So to make this work the municipality and the phone company etc. have to be
able to recognise the OLC codes.  I probably need to add the boxes as a
node into OSM initially just those that have Graffiti, some particular ones
are more frequently covered than others.

They may have to be transcribed, so do OLC codes incorporate a check digit?

Anyone have any experience with working with municipalities and phone
companies etc in this way?  Yes Lat and Long would work but might be
confusing to people who have to work with them, again check digits would
avoid transcription errors.

I also need something to generate an OLC code when using JOSM.  I could use
OSMand but its difficult to cut and paste from one device to another.

Inspiration anyone?

Thanks John
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