Hi John, All, what3words is free at point of use and is human readable - the word component also is quite good at error checking.
Postcodes and generic codes work if the people you want to use them have a cognition of addressing systems like postcodes or mailstops. My experience in rural Tanzania is that they don't have that experience. We've been integrating what3words so people will be able phone or text location. ID numbers on water points just washed away/eroded. what3words works even under partial degradation, then it can be error corrected unlike a postcode where every digit is relevant. Best, Mark Sent from my iPhone > On 2 May 2015, at 23:52, john whelan <[email protected]> wrote: > > what3words is nice but is commercial. I was hoping for some sort of open > data prem code postcode idea. UK prem code is the house number so a prem > code followed by the postcode is a unique address. Example 10pr82az is 10 > weld road southport pr8 2az. > > Cheerio John > >> On 2 May 2015 at 17:42, Mark Iliffe <[email protected]> wrote: >> Hi Claire, >> >> Have you had a look at "what3words": http://what3words.com? It's three words >> and is multi lingual, quite a lot more usable than genetic codes. >> >> In Tanzania my team and I have been looking at using them (through pilots) >> for locating/identifying water points and will scale them across a few >> regions over the next year. >> >> Happy to chat more if you would like. >> >> Best, >> >> Mark >> >>> On 2 May 2015, at 21:45, Claire Halleux <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> Ever heard of this? >>> A G*solution for locating places accurately where addresses are not obvious: >>> http://google-opensource.blogspot.be/2015/04/open-location-code-addresses-for.html >>> >>> Still, it doesn't seem to me more intuitive than coordinate systems. >>> Ex: I am currently in 87C4VXW3+HG8. >>> There are ways to shorten it, but I doubt that those would be applicable in >>> places that would actually need this kind of tool. >>> >>> However, would you have any experience on this or other ways to share >>> regarding using non standard geographic coordinates system for locating >>> places? >>> >>> Claire >>> >>> Claire Halleux >>> +243 99 256 9980 (Kinshasa, DRC) >>> Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team >>> >>> http://www.hotosm.org/ >>> http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/2014_DRC_Ebola_Response >>> _______________________________________________ >>> HOT mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/hot >> >> _______________________________________________ >> HOT mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/hot >> >
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