After a bit of digging around I concluded that OsmAnd displays these "plus codes" as a convenience for the user -- they are not stored in OSM itself. The coordinates in a format called Open Location Code (OLC) < http://openlocationcode.com/> that is something like a voice-friendly description of area coordinates.
I knew about the "Geohash" scheme for coordinates but these were new to me. On Fri, 3 Nov 2017 at 12:24 Graeme Fitzpatrick <[email protected]> wrote: > On 3 November 2017 at 09:58, Nick Hocking <[email protected]> wrote: > >> >> Bing maps (and Bing search) does not know of this string. Maybe it's >> proprietary Google information. >> > > I was wondering the same thing, because a Google search on that string of > data returns a location shown on Google Maps, which is the shop I was > looking at? > > Isn't that a rather strange thing to have connected with OSM? > > Or is that an OSMAND matter / problem? I'll head over to that forum, ask > the question there as well & see if they've got any info? > > Thanks > > Graeme > _______________________________________________ > Talk-au mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-au >
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