what3words is nice but is commercial. I was hoping for some sort of open data prem code postcode idea. UK prem code is the house number so a prem code followed by the postcode is a unique address. Example 10pr82az is 10 weld road southport pr8 2az.
Cheerio John On 2 May 2015 at 17:42, Mark Iliffe <m...@markiliffe.co.uk> wrote: > Hi Claire, > > Have you had a look at "what3words": http://what3words.com? It's three > words and is multi lingual, quite a lot more usable than genetic codes. > > In Tanzania my team and I have been looking at using them (through pilots) > for locating/identifying water points and will scale them across a few > regions over the next year. > > Happy to chat more if you would like. > > Best, > > Mark > > On 2 May 2015, at 21:45, Claire Halleux <claire.hall...@hotosm.org> wrote: > > Ever heard of this? > A G*solution for locating places accurately where addresses are not > obvious: > > http://google-opensource.blogspot.be/2015/04/open-location-code-addresses-for.html > > Still, it doesn't seem to me more intuitive than coordinate systems. > Ex: I am currently in 87C4VXW3+HG8. > There are ways to shorten it, but I doubt that those would be applicable > in places that would actually need this kind of tool. > > However, would you have any experience on this or other ways to share > regarding using non standard geographic coordinates system for locating > places? > > Claire > > Claire Halleux > +243 99 256 9980 (Kinshasa, DRC) > Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team > > http://www.hotosm.org/ > http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/2014_DRC_Ebola_Response > > _______________________________________________ > HOT mailing list > HOT@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/hot > > > _______________________________________________ > HOT mailing list > HOT@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/hot > >
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