> It is interesting that this effort for addressing is being trashed because > it is savvy technology. >
Dont see anyone has 'trashed' the idea of using Plus Codes as such. Just the bulk import of them as *data* to the core OSM database. Its redundant data. > Plus code can be calculated on the fly, > Exactly, the address search interface/gazetteer could show the address *with* a plus code. > but if they are to be used we will need to have hard copy maps with the > addresses that can be used to direct aid workers to a specific location. > So have a fancy renderer than can render the Plus Codes as needed. Never tried, but it should be possible to render special plus code aligned grids on the map. I don't understand what problems would be created by adding valuable > information to an address point. > another issue with it being added as tags, if the node is moved to correct its location, the editor would have to remember to update the plus-code tags as well (not just the lat/long) If want to find where a plus code is, a search interface, can just decode the plus code, get a lat/long and run a standard geospatial query. That works *now* worldwide, without any sort of bulk import of tags. ... as tags it would need a text index of the tags, and search that. Apparently there are currently 4665583767 nodes in OSM, the tags mentioned seem to be about 83 bytes long. That's 390 *Gigabytes* of data just to add plus codes to them all. A basic mobile phone could easily compute the location for a plus-code with the algorithm. If had to look it up in this database would be way more than 390gb of data on the device! (or need an active internet connection to the online database) > So far I see no practical solution for giving an address to the billions > of people that do not have one, > Every single point on earth already has a plus code already. Its already been assigned by the algorithm. Just like every single point as a lat/long coordinate.
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