[OSM-talk] Open Location Code and Graffiti

[john whelan]

But what is needed to make it work?

Thanks John

On Wed, 29 Aug 2018, 3:59 pm Pine W, <wiki.pine at gmail.com> wrote:

> Thanks for sharing the idea of reporting problems like graffiti using
> coordinates. For some reason this idea never crossed my mind until I read
> your email. This would have been useful for me on one occasion in
> particular when I was trying to describe the location of graffiti in a
> public park. I can think of other types of situations where coordinates
> would be more useful than saying something like "200 feet north of the iron
> statue and on the west side of the gatehouse, above a path that goes to the
> creek".
>
> Pine
> ( https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Pine )
>
>
> On Sat, Aug 25, 2018 at 10:06 PM john whelan <jwhelan0112 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> 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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