Think about what you have just said. If I have an internet connection available and I'm running JOSM how would I find them if Nominatim wasn't available.
Cheerio John On Thu, 9 Aug 2018, 6:28 pm Yves, <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 >>>> >>>> >>> >> _______________________________________________ > talk mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk >
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