On 10.08.18 20:46, Christoph Hormann wrote:
On Friday 10 August 2018, Blake Girardot wrote:
[...]
Let us find a local community that is asking for this and give it a
trial there.
I read this as "lets find some country with no sufficiently organized
local community to resists and push this nonsense idea of adding
encoded coordinates as tags to features there in a hope to sneak this
into OSM". This is exactly the arrogant and abusive approach
what3words used for their proprietary system.
The idea of tagging encoded coordinates is so ridiculous to anyone with
a bit of understanding of computer programming, data processing and
data maintainance that even after ignoring all the arguments in
substance that have been voiced this should be universally rejected if
for no other reason then because it would make OSM the laughing stock
of the whole geodata world.
what3words is a proprietary commercial approach. The OLC is Open Source,
and it is used at the Google Maps for almost three years.
If OLC generating and search are implemented at the OSM, it would become
sort of an universal open source standard.
As for using it in tags, if one clicks at another part of the same
building the OLC code would be different. And what if one wants to have
a constant legal address?
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