> > Thanks for sharing your blog post Martin and those are really interesting > ideas Andrew. I don't have that much experience with field mapping but > integrating what 3 words (w3w) with field papers to simply document > addresses using the offline SDK where internet is not available seems > fruitful.
Actually, this could be beneficial for mapping just about any feature if the mapper doesn't have a gps, or gps on their phone, or a decent signal. They could just annotate a feature on their field papers with the three words and know where to digitize it later. > Talking to some of the w3w folks at Crisismappers I know they have > interest in getting a humanitarian mapping pilot going. If the right > project is found it would be great to see this tested in the field. > -Tom G > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 4 > Date: Sun, 21 Dec 2014 20:56:01 -0600 > From: Andrew Buck <[email protected]> > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [HOT] Simple address codes for buildings > Message-ID: <[email protected]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > This is definitely an interesting idea. I have looked at 'what 3 > words' before and thought it might be useful for numerous things. > Identifying buildings as you have suggested is one interesting idea > and there are others as well. It would be interesting if this could > be done in an offline fashion, so that people generating field reports > where internet access is not available could use the what 3 words api > offline to generate a field report and then tweet that or email it > once they get back online. This is definitely something we should > look into further. > > - -AndrewBuck > > > On 12/20/2014 07:02 AM, spatialbits wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > I'd like to share a blog post on assigning what3words address codes > > [1] to OSM buildings: > > > > > http://spatialbits.blogspot.de/2014/12/assigning-what3words-addresses-to-osm.html > > > > I wonder whether addressing OSM features like this could be > > beneficial in the HOT context? > > > > Cheers, > > > > Martin (@spatialbits) > > > > [1] http://what3words.com/ > > > >
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