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
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >
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