Re: [HOT] Addresses in Africa

2016-09-10 Thread john whelan
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

Re: [HOT] Addresses in Africa

2016-09-07 Thread Rory McCann
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

Re: [HOT] Addresses in Africa

2016-09-01 Thread john whelan
I think it adds to the discussion and enriches it. At least it shows in Mali there are street names and numbers even if they are treated somewhat casually. Thanks John On 1 September 2016 at 15:05, Jorieke Vyncke wrote: > Not a real contribution to the discussion;

Re: [HOT] Addresses in Africa

2016-09-01 Thread Jorieke Vyncke
Not a real contribution to the discussion; but just sharing because it's a fantastic story... http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-33808629 2016-09-01 15:46 GMT+02:00 john whelan : > I think what I'm after is to avoid fragmentation with multiple ways to > give someone an

Re: [HOT] Addresses in Africa

2016-09-01 Thread john whelan
I think what I'm after is to avoid fragmentation with multiple ways to give someone an address. openlocationcode.com looks attractive and esay to implement, open and free. It groups locations so has some of the advantages of postcodes but I don't think it has redundancy in the address nor does

Re: [HOT] Addresses in Africa

2016-09-01 Thread Christian Ledermann
My experiences in Kenya are: For individual areas the postcode is mostly unknown. If you want to receive a letter you have to rent a PO Box at a post office (which then also may serve as your 'address') which has a postcodes Postcodes are (mainly) useful for post offices (in Kenya). House

Re: [HOT] Addresses in Africa

2016-08-31 Thread Iván Sánchez Ortega
El onsdag 31. august 2016 08.29.01 CEST usted escribió: > ​"bottle area codes" > > I like the idea but [...] A bit like net neutrality I think postcode would > be more neutral. I kinda disagree. Postcodes won't be neutral, because (as we've seen from previous conversations) post