Yes but it uses Google and Google often doesn't cover the parts of the world we're interested in. Besides which it locks you in by using words. It also requires lots of java script and appears to need an online connection to get the address. Plus it takes 20-30 seconds to generate one. People generally get impatient with web sites after having to wait two seconds.
I wonder if we can directly support latitude and longitude better. A JOSM plugin perhaps? OSMAND support on poi? A cross hatch pointer on the web page tiles? Cheerio John On 10 September 2016 at 09:21, Alessandro Fanna <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi all, just to put some more entropy in the discussion I add this nice > and open reverse geocode addressing: > http://xaddress.org/ > > Hope not getting too much off topic. > > Alessandro Fanna > > Il 10/set/2016 12:46, "Pete Masters" <[email protected]> ha > scritto: > > > > This article made me think of this thread.... http://www.domain. > com.au/news/letter-with-map-instead-of-address-still-gets- > delivered-in-iceland-20160905-gr90u1/ > > > > Pete > > > > On Wed, Sep 7, 2016 at 4:13 PM, Rory McCann <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> > >> On 31/08/16 13:37, john whelan wrote: > >> > There has been considerable talk about addressing schemes for areas > >> > that do not have street names etc. Three words etc. > >> > >> Y'know you don't have to go as far as Africa to find countries with > >> address "systems" like that. I give you: Ireland. In rural areas (many) > >> streets have no names, and many houses have no numbers, using house > >> names instead. Lowest level administrative areas (townlands) are often > >> used (but not always accurately) to construct an address. > >> > >> About 30% of rural addresses are non-unique. i.e. The postman has to > >> know things from the surname on the letter. > >> > >> A new postcode system has been released recently, which gives every > >> letter box a unique & random code. But it'll be years before that's used > >> a lot. > >> > >> Alas, Ireland's drink monoculture means Ivan's beer address system > >> probably wouldn't work. :) > >> > >> Read more: > >> > >> * https://www.autoaddress.ie/products/irish-addressing > >> * > >> http://www.dataireland.ie/News/Pages/Tricky-Irish- > Addresses-Why-do-Irish-addresses-pose-so-many-problems > >> > >> > >> > >> _______________________________________________ > >> HOT mailing list > >> [email protected] > >> https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/hot > >> > > > > > > > > -- > > Pete Masters > > Missing Maps Project Coordinator > > +44 7921 781 518 > > > > missingmaps.org > > > > @pedrito1414 > > @theMissingMaps > > facebook.com/MissingMapsProject > > > > _______________________________________________ > > 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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