And to take it a step further OSMand will allow searches by latitude and longitude etc but really it needs a decent set of documentation or perhaps a plugin to make it work smoothly.
Cheerio John On 10 Sep 2016 3:48 pm, "john whelan" <[email protected]> wrote: > To take it a step or two further. You can search for lat and long in > Nomination provided you just enter the numbers. So lat='45.472891' > lon='-75.4891002' doesn't work but 45.472891, -75.4891002 does. Ideally > you'd want to zoom in on the location as well. > > Encode this address in a bar code and life gets interesting. With a > smartphone you can scan the bar code and display the location on a map > without needing an internet connection. It would need a bit of glue to do > this. Give the delivery person an ordered list of letters / packages to > deliver then as you deliver one you scan in the next bar code and use off > line routing to find the way to the next address. > > Cheerio John > > On 10 September 2016 at 11:34, john whelan <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Comment you can't take the lat and long from the .osm file and paste it >> in nomination to find the location. Pity that sounds too much like user >> friendliness. >> >> Cheerio John >> >> On 10 September 2016 at 11:31, john whelan <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> The very crude way is to pull in the poi into JOSM then save the .osm >>> file and bring it up in something like notepad++. >>> >>> lat='45.472891' lon='-75.4891002' >>> >>> Do we need all the digits for a a reasonable amount of accuracy? >>> >>> It certainly looks like a fairly simple JOSM plug in could be built that >>> could display or drop something into a cut and paste style window. >>> >>> I think I'd prefer some sort of check digit though to catch >>> transpositions. >>> >>> Thanks John >>> >>> On 10 September 2016 at 10:57, john whelan <[email protected]> >>> wrote: >>> >>>> 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.c >>>>> om.au/news/letter-with-map-instead-of-address-still-gets-del >>>>> ivered-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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