Hi John, I appreciate your thoughtful and informative remarks as always here and on the osm-talk thread, especially about the Open Location Code discussion.
I clearly generally agree they are not a perfect solution and I am not even sure we know all the possible use cases, but they are a very good option at the moment, open source, light weight, easy to implement in tools. But I must take exception to your paragraph here: > Translation is this allows us to give every dwelling in Africa etc its own > address. It is not in itself a complete addressing solution since it > doesn't handle things like 2nd floor but it does at least take you to the > building. Trying out OLC in some local circumstances, driven from on the ground up in that location is fine. If they see a possible usefulness to them, by all means I will do everything I can to support them as they figure out if it is something of value to the local community. But the idea of giving every dwelling in Africa an address is not a good way to frame it. We are not giving anyone anything. If people wish to use these locally first, or operating locally I will help them to the best of my ability. But in no way do I feel we are or should be giving "every dwelling in Africa etc its own address" and I would like to make that clear from the start. This is a potential useful system that seems well suited to solve some use cases in some locations but must be really wanted by the local community and driven from the ground up, hopefully in conjunction with other local actors in the area. Cheers John, blake On Sat, Aug 11, 2018 at 2:55 PM, john whelan <jwhelan0...@gmail.com> wrote: > Open Location Code or Plus code is just a method of representing latitude > and longitude in a more human friendly way. > > It was originally created by Google but has been released under an open > licence. > > It is possible to set osmand to show coordinates as OLC. This means it can > display the OLC code for any node or building in OpenStreetMap and the > displayed code can be copied to the clipboard. No extra tagging is > necessary. > > OSMand will also accept an OLC code for searching purposes. > > It would seem likely that Nominatim will allow searching by OLC in the near > future. > > Translation is this allows us to give every dwelling in Africa etc its own > address. It is not in itself a complete addressing solution since it > doesn't handle things like 2nd floor but it does at least take you to the > building. > > To make this work will require training material for example how to turn it > on in OSMand. It is not turned on by default. > > Because it is calculated from the buildings's latitude and longitude it is > embedded in OSM and will not disappear. It is stable so you can build on > it. > > Now you need to think about how it can be used and what additional resources > will be required to make full use of it. > > Cheerio John > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > HOT mailing list > HOT@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/hot > -- ---------------------------------------------------- Blake Girardot OSM Wiki - https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/User:Bgirardot HOTOSM Member - https://hotosm.org/users/blake_girardot skype: jblakegirardot _______________________________________________ HOT mailing list HOT@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/hot
