Hi, there's already a pull request https://github.com/openstreetmap/openstreetmap-website/pull/1818
Stefano Il giorno gio 9 ago 2018 alle ore 15:45 Yuri Astrakhan < yuriastrak...@gmail.com> ha scritto: > 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 >> > _______________________________________________ > talk mailing list > talk@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk >
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