So you could use them as postcode equivalents. Is any statistical data available associated with an area? Such as population etc? The area used to collect the data might be a better choice.
Cheerio John On Sun, 12 Aug 2018, 1:20 pm Blake Girardot, <bgirar...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi all, > > For anyone that would like to visualize that the Open Location Code > grid looks like, I took some screen shots of it overlayed with some > imagery. > > The smallest squares in the examples each have a 10 character OLC > number/letter code. You will notice like every grid, the real world is > not on a grid and many structures are in more than one grid. (Every > grid system has this problem). > > The next up larger size of square is the square for an 8 character OLC > number/letter code. It obviously groups a lot more buildings together, > almost the small village scale, but again, they will usually be part > in two, just like a structure. > > Anyway, thought folks who like to see things visualized in some way to > help understand them might benefit from looking at what exactly we are > talking about. > > I would like to see a way to have a better, more informative grid in > all our tools, so like a TMS layer or support in OpenLayers or leaflet > or something. The grid is based on WGS84 degrees already so anything > that helps draw a graticule can just be adapted to have different > major lines and list the shortened OLC instead of the degrees. > > https://twitter.com/BlakeGirardot/status/1028689726088388609 > > Cheers > blake > > Cheers > 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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