-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA256 Hi Colin,
Beside the different opinions about proprietary and closed technology, what is the point to add these 3 words as a tag? I don't really understand the benefit, because the relation between location (coordinates) and their address system is fixed. It's just a 3x3m grid. In OSM every object has a geometry and you can query the w3w address just using their API. So I don't see the point where it makes sense to add such an address tag. It's like you add "latlon" as a tag. Regards, Daniel On 22/11/15 22:37, Colin Smale wrote: > > > > > Andy, you are right, if you accept that the 3 or 4 people who have > participated in this discussion are representative of OSM at large. > But the most active inhabitants of this list and others are limited > to maybe 10 people, who frequently use authoritative-sounding > language like "we are not doing it" and "it has no place in OSM" > without the merest hint of "IMHO". I am not naming any names, and I > don't want to get into any personal arguments, but it is a general > frustration I have with the discussions on these lists. > > There may be many arguments against w3w in OSM, but I was kind of > hoping that some of the attacks would also apply objectively to > other entities which are or are not mapped in OSM. On-the-ground > visibility was mentioned, and that is spurious in the sense that > there are many other things in OSM which are not visible and are > yet tolerated. Being proprietary was mentioned, but it is not > really much more proprietary than the coordinates of UK postcodes > used to be, and we were happily reverse-engineering them and adding > them to point addresses and deriving district boundaries from that > data. Through all that effort the proprietary nature (and the > commercial value) of the PAF was to some extent diluted, and now a > lot of this information is publicly available. Only time will tell > if w3w takes off commercially. Right now they have had $5m of > funding and have an impressive list of partners. > > --colin > > On 2015-11-22 14:01, ajt1...@gmail.com wrote: > >> >> >> On 22/11/2015 12:51, Colin Smale wrote: >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> ...and once again, as seems to be the norm in OSM, any >>> minority interest which is not supported by the oligarchy gets >>> mercilessly shot down. >>> >>> >> >> ... except it's not _just_ the "oligarchy", is it? No-one on >> this list seems to have a good word for the original idea. >> >> Cheers, >> >> Andy (SomeoneElse) >> >> _______________________________________________ talk mailing >> list talk@openstreetmap.org <mailto:talk@openstreetmap.org> >> https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk > > > _______________________________________________ talk mailing list > talk@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk > - -- Georepublic UG & Georepublic Japan eMail: daniel.ka...@georepublic.de Web: https://georepublic.info -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2 iQEcBAEBCAAGBQJWUci6AAoJEHjh5kk/zBG0MkQH/3R0ROeV1V8ugjeddSNrNaBE KL7gQreKBzhrg+YnysiZGjqBJ6i0dmpe6OimPAXrOLrhzu90LvZJZRfhhSmWi3ms HuNLUJofcPqQybEoJTZ+khQpebMBFg0DatH5uQJYvg+0fTBMpQncKtUjTPlMXhZf UWMZSQNEpPOq8BAZ1/aO1Kxvxd2VNTxBgznsyTSzqs1LY8oS5ZiRzMFBpODYwlI7 kiqI69M8LC/IUjX5iSetBH+fTucNJxguvVhjadJnusGW6n+7gLYyPcZnTdRy5Q1+ HtUhDHOXqZiFYEoVcbveHZnEKAiMq9qXpZvv6xwQS4RJmEQpKTS6aGLBZ9jKSuc= =lpOg -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
