If those codes can be encoded and decoded offline, it should be dealt with offline by the client, not a server-side application like Nominatim. Yves
Le 10 août 2018 00:04:56 GMT+02:00, Vao Matua <[email protected]> a écrit : >I use Plus Codes with OSMand offline and it works well. If we are >worried >about the number of tags we should remove all tags and convince >everyone to >just use lat/long. >The ability to verbally tell someone a location like 47RP+XG >Dar-es-Salaam >is much easier than -6.85748/39.28613 >Suspend disbelief, sometimes new things are better. > >On Thu, Aug 9, 2018 at 2:57 PM, john whelan <[email protected]> >wrote: > >> So if OSMand or some such could handle them in a search off line that >> would be acceptable? They are generated from long and lat after all. >> >> My feeling is adding them to Nominatim is not a perfect solution as >it >> implies OpenStreetMap supports them rather than something else but >from a >> practical point of view it would solve a lot of problems. Not least >the >> idea that tags get added to every building with some sort of address >code. >> How many different codes for buildings are we going to see? >> >> Currently locally addr: has number, postcode and street name so its >> difficult to logically say its one rule for one country and another >for a >> different one. >> >> Cheerio John >> >> On 9 August 2018 at 17:40, Vao Matua <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> It is a good idea for the unconnected part of the world. If you have >>> access to a website you might as well use three-silly-words. >>> If you have a stand-alone app with the Plus Codes on the buildings >then >>> someone can easily communicate that information. >>> Internet connectivity is not world wide. >>> >>> On Thu, Aug 9, 2018 at 2:27 PM, Frederik Ramm <[email protected]> >>> wrote: >>> >>>> Hi, >>>> >>>> On 08/09/2018 10:48 PM, Vao Matua wrote: >>>> > The Tanzania Development trust has calculated the Plus Code >addresses >>>> > for 17 million building points in Tanzania and have added a >sample >>>> > village (1800 points) as a test. >>>> >>>> This is not a good idea. Please don't do it. It does not make >sense! If >>>> someone searches for a plus code on a web site, the site can >compute the >>>> lat/lon and take you there, WITHOUT having to add billions of plus >code >>>> points all over the word. >>>> >>>> Bye >>>> Frederik >>>> >>>> -- >>>> Frederik Ramm ## eMail [email protected] ## N49°00'09" >E008°23'33" >>>> >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> talk mailing list >>>> [email protected] >>>> https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk >>>> >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> talk mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk >>> >>> >>
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