Hi Owen, this is something that has in fact been discussed both here and in the GitHub repository. Both the full code (8 digits in front of the + sign) and the short code (4 digits in front of +, followed by a reference location) are valid plus codes, and each project using plus codes can decide whether to use one or the other. Google Maps chose to only display short codes with the major difficulty being that a reference location needs to be turned back into coordinates first, making it hard to copy a short code from there to elsewhere and use it without problems (especially offline).
While some Googlers are watching this group, it might be best to give feedback via the Google Maps app directly, and request an optional display of full codes as a feature there. In the meantime, https://plus.codes/map has a grid function that you can enable to show full code prefixes for the whole map. I hope that helps with your understanding of what prefix typically addresses what region. On Sunday, August 8, 2021 at 4:12:25 PM UTC+2 owen...@icloud.com wrote: > Hi, > > This is mostly a feature request for Maps, but am happy to learn of > alternatives, existing duplicate requests, or correction if I misunderstand > anything. > > From my OLC specs reading, so far I’m aware that plus codes break down the > Earth’s surface into cells with customizable precision (add/remove least > significant digits on the right and possibly padding with 0, ex. CCCC0000+ > vs CCCCCCCC+CCCC), optional use of a reference location (remove digits from > the left and using a landmark name to select outer cell, ex. CCCC+CC City, > Province), and the + formatting character to keep track of the place value, > analagous to the decimal point. > > However, when a plus code is given in Google Maps, the *code always uses > the same formatting and there isn’t any widget near the given plus code or > in Maps configuration to customize it*. > > [image: pluscode.png] > > In my case, I don’t want to use the 6-digit version with a reference > location (ex. GGHH+JJ City, Province) and would much prefer the absolute > 10-digit equivalent (ex. CCFFGGHH+JJ) to avoid ambiguity and to be more > aware of which larger regions correspond to which leftmost digits (ex. I > want to recognize what continent/ocean is likely referenced with a > CCFF0000+ prefix). > > Thanks and greetings, > > Owen > > Sorry if my examples are not within the valid coordinates range, I was too > lazy to use real examples > -- Public site: http://www.openlocationcode.com/ Github project: https://github.com/google/open-location-code Demo site: http://plus.codes/ --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Plus Codes Community Forum" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to open-location-code+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web, visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/open-location-code/18a25d09-55c3-45fa-b3f1-188073fcb4b0n%40googlegroups.com.
