On 2018-08-10 21:06, Simon Poole wrote:
While the goals sound worthy, it is unclear if any of the grid systems
(w3w, plus codes and so on) deliver on their promises and have any
traction outside of people in countries with established addressing
systems trying to push them as solutions for countries without.
As I've pointed out before, if OSM supports a specific system, it
amounts to us picking a winner , and I really don't think that is a good
idea. w3w wants to make money from royalties, google wants to avoid
paying them. Both have a financial interest in us adopting their
systems. IMHO when one eventually "wins" we can start supporting it
then, before one of them pasts the post, it is premature.
Or OSM could support a variety of different coordinate systems (so long
as they are free/open).
It is possible to search for latitude/longitude on osm.org, why not also
allow UTM/MGRS, Plus codes, Geohash etc.
OSM doesn't have to endorse one particular system as the best.
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