I think you have missed a major point. You do not give anyone an OLC. It is simply their lat and long encoded in letters.
So every building in the world has a lat and long, it is its location. This can be expressed as an OLC. Cheerio John On Sat, 11 Aug 2018, 4:49 pm Blake Girardot, <bgirar...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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 >
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