I'm a big fan of plus codes, and even have a pending implementation of it in the Elasticsearch (as an aggregation hashing function). I doubt there are any legal restrictions on using this - the code is licensed under Apache 2, and Google states "Plus codes are free. There are no licensing fees or other costs. The technology is open-sourced." at https://plus.codes/
Not sure about the implementation complexities. On Thu, Aug 9, 2018 at 4:35 PM oleksiy.muzal...@bluewin.ch < oleksiy.muzal...@bluewin.ch> wrote: > Open Location Codes are also referred to as "plus codes". Since August > 2015, Google Maps supports plus codes in their search engine. The algorithm > is Open Source, licensed under the Apache License 2.0. and available on > GitHub [1]. > > A plus code, can be generated at: https://plus.codes/ . It can be entered > at the Google Maps search input box to find a location. A plus sign "+" is > inserted in the code for recognition. > > It would be nice to have an interoperability. For example, a customer uses > Google Map, but a dispatcher in a Call Center the OpenStreetMap. The OLC > has got some interesting features: > > "Open Location Codes are derived from latitude and longitude coordinates, > so they already exist everywhere. They are similar in length to a telephone > number -- 849VCWC8+R9, for example -- but can often be shortened to only > four or six digits when combined with a locality (CWC8+R9, Mountain View). > Locations close to each other have similar codes. They can be encoded or > decoded offline. The character set avoids similar looking characters, to > reduce confusion and errors, and avoids vowels to make it unlikely that a > code spells existing words.The Open Location Code is not case-sensitive, > and can therefore be easily exchanged over the phone." [1] > > [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Location_Code > > Best regards, > Oleksiy > > _______________________________________________ > talk mailing list > talk@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk >
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