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> > I guess there would be no objections to someone adding > addr:w3w:en=nice.place.here ? Or addr:w3w=en:nice.place.here ? > > Surely the established addressing systems are also closed and > proprietary, in the sense that some organisation with a sanctioned > monopoly tells YOU what your address is - you cannot just make it > up yourself. Street naming, postal codes etc are definitely in > this category. We have been crowdsourcing postcodes for years > without problems. > The difference in their proprietary system (if you want to call address systems in in countries closed and proprietary) is, that when their API (and "algorithm") goes away, you won't find any address anymore. It's totally unreliable to depend on a proprietary API to locate an address, and a waste of time to add such data to OSM in my opinion. Regards, Daniel - -- Georepublic UG & Georepublic Japan eMail: [email protected] Web: https://georepublic.info -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2 iQEcBAEBCAAGBQJWUbnBAAoJEHjh5kk/zBG0fTsIAM2TSeFlIbBW6laJP6O8E9NF X3eTOExYtaQFHlsYXII/MWo8apMjGtCIw4fkmWFzkktkgIZlIqSWZdg2hzEBctCy ilmSwsx2mL3yGf0uX+PhdPOvKKuBLq1NBMUDVV5Nl6Nnj9SPQA039B67B5Xve2HK G/Lc6ZO5+5uGGMv4i2n0/Y99XNJWuax9E0AauKLGsJiFTA5d0bebbBC1AK9NmVf5 1MHNMED4bf82CbrV1TbR/nyjhWhXrA2OqJmEUKKK/TM/NnyakrLcFr2Ivx84PzdU h+ozbJUrlpZDxv7yhCgWVuRsFcHF+QtNS52wK7VK964FptVLR5U21EVerAg1c3A= =YvLQ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ talk mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
