And if you enter the lat and long into Nomination it will not only give you the location on the map but on a good day will display the civic address as well.
Best of both worlds. Cheerio John On 10 Sep 2016 4:11 pm, "john whelan" <[email protected]> wrote: > 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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