On 10.08.18 00:13, Blake Girardot HOT/OSM wrote:
This is really cool to hear!
I am a big fan of OLC / Pluse Codes
I passed this thread on to the folks at Google Zurich who created it
originally, not sure if they still work there or not, we last chatted
in 2016, but I am sure they will be glad to stop in and answer
questions if I can raise them.
Cheers
blake
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I read here https://plus.codes/developers that they work on
implementations in other languages.
On the practical side, I know that a new driver at a delivery service
may spend in some cases up to three - four hours to deliver one Internet
order in a city (I had some interviews with delivery drivers). There are
new apartment buildings which are not yet in navigators, some houses are
several hundred meters long [1], etc.
This excessive senseless driving is not only expensive but also harms
environment. I think it makes sense to implement the OLC as a practical
attempt to improve the archaic (or absent) street-name & house-number
address system, to start people realizing that there is a way now to
specify the exact location over email and over telephone unequivocally,
so no waste of time and fuel is necessary anymore.
Besides, I assume it was done already technically, - there is the pull
request already.
About 50% of all traffic is one or another kind of delivery. The OLC may
improve situation with traffic jams and CO2 pollution, which concerns
all. If people start using the OLC massively, there will be, most
probably, further attempts to improve it since it is Open Source.
[1] https://osm.org/go/0iaifBuGU--?m=
Best regards,
Oleksiy
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