Agreed but in their complete absence OLC area codes can be a useful substitute.
If you know how many coffee drinkers there are in a given OLC area code then you can decide if its worth opening up a coffee shop. Starbucks for example will do this sort of research before opening a new store and pay for the information. Cheerio John On Mon, Aug 13, 2018, 8:26 PM Philippe Verdy <verd...@wanadoo.fr> wrote: > postcodes are certainly not equivalent as they are related to a > distribution area and logistics, which is not based on a strict géographic > grid but on access and population to desserve > > Le dim. 12 août 2018 à 20:46, john whelan <jwhelan0...@gmail.com> a > écrit : > >> 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 >>> >> _______________________________________________ >> HOT mailing list >> HOT@openstreetmap.org >> https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/hot >> >
_______________________________________________ HOT mailing list HOT@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/hot
