postcodes are certainly not equivalent as they are related to a distribution area and logistics, which is not based on a strict géographic grid but on access and population to desserve
Le dim. 12 août 2018 à 20:46, john whelan <[email protected]> a écrit : > So you could use them as postcode equivalents. Is any statistical data > available associated with an area? Such as population etc? The area used > to collect the data might be a better choice. > > Cheerio John > > On Sun, 12 Aug 2018, 1:20 pm Blake Girardot, <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Hi all, >> >> For anyone that would like to visualize that the Open Location Code >> grid looks like, I took some screen shots of it overlayed with some >> imagery. >> >> The smallest squares in the examples each have a 10 character OLC >> number/letter code. You will notice like every grid, the real world is >> not on a grid and many structures are in more than one grid. (Every >> grid system has this problem). >> >> The next up larger size of square is the square for an 8 character OLC >> number/letter code. It obviously groups a lot more buildings together, >> almost the small village scale, but again, they will usually be part >> in two, just like a structure. >> >> Anyway, thought folks who like to see things visualized in some way to >> help understand them might benefit from looking at what exactly we are >> talking about. >> >> I would like to see a way to have a better, more informative grid in >> all our tools, so like a TMS layer or support in OpenLayers or leaflet >> or something. The grid is based on WGS84 degrees already so anything >> that helps draw a graticule can just be adapted to have different >> major lines and list the shortened OLC instead of the degrees. >> >> https://twitter.com/BlakeGirardot/status/1028689726088388609 >> >> Cheers >> blake >> >> Cheers >> blake >> >> On Sat, Aug 11, 2018 at 2:55 PM, john whelan <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> > Open Location Code or Plus code is just a method of representing >> latitude >> > and longitude in a more human friendly way. >> > >> > It was originally created by Google but has been released under an open >> > licence. >> > >> > It is possible to set osmand to show coordinates as OLC. This means it >> can >> > display the OLC code for any node or building in OpenStreetMap and the >> > displayed code can be copied to the clipboard. No extra tagging is >> > necessary. >> > >> > OSMand will also accept an OLC code for searching purposes. >> > >> > It would seem likely that Nominatim will allow searching by OLC in the >> near >> > future. >> > >> > Translation is this allows us to give every dwelling in Africa etc its >> own >> > address. It is not in itself a complete addressing solution since it >> > doesn't handle things like 2nd floor but it does at least take you to >> the >> > building. >> > >> > To make this work will require training material for example how to >> turn it >> > on in OSMand. It is not turned on by default. >> > >> > Because it is calculated from the buildings's latitude and longitude it >> is >> > embedded in OSM and will not disappear. It is stable so you can build >> on >> > it. >> > >> > Now you need to think about how it can be used and what additional >> resources >> > will be required to make full use of it. >> > >> > Cheerio John >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > _______________________________________________ >> > HOT mailing list >> > [email protected] >> > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/hot >> > >> >> >> >> -- >> ---------------------------------------------------- >> Blake Girardot >> OSM Wiki - https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/User:Bgirardot >> HOTOSM Member - https://hotosm.org/users/blake_girardot >> skype: jblakegirardot >> > _______________________________________________ > HOT mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/hot >
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