Does anyone know anything about this project to use Open Location Codes (Plus Codes) for addresses in rural Utah? I get the tech and assignment parts, but I can't find anything talking about what government action was involved. I feel confident if I walked into my local DMV and tried to give a Plus Code as an address I'd get lots of strange looks but no license.
https://maps.google.com/pluscodes/case-studies/rural-utah-project/
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I like Open Location Coordinates AKA #olc #plusCodes as these are a compact, readable easily sharable open way to identify global coordinates.
There's 2 renderings though, a full one and a version that's abbreviated but needs a locality name.
The long one is great, the other one is useless because an app would need a massive db of placenames.
Guess which version #googleMaps gives access to...
Open Location Code
(This post is being modified)Open Location Code (OLC) is a geocoding system that encodes latitude/longitude coordinates into a short string of typically 9-12 characters, the idea being that these strings can be communicated better than the latitude/longitude coordinates themselves. Individual codes are also called plus codes, because the OLC specification mandates a '+' character after the eighth code digit
Today I am wishing again for #activityPub to support location-aware communities. I'd like to see posts on maps. I'd like to talk to people in my community and neighboring areas, and follow specific locations with #OLC #plusCodes, (without having to manually expand the quad tree for large regions!)
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Is there any software on the #Fediverse doing this?
TIL why Google has not thrown in any support for "What 3 Words"... they have their own competing system "Plus Codes"
This turns out to be something I've looked into because I independently came up with a similar idea around 2007. Mine had five words, more fidelity, support for multiple dictionaries or language, z-axis positioning, and checksum words.
#DAE #DoesAnyoneElse provide something else (e.g. coordinates or #PlusCodes) than an address when ordering an Uber or Bolt? (FreeNow doesn't support #PlusCodes it seems, unfortunately)
My current address has issues with streetname and number to get to the right place, so I resorted to putting my home location as a plus code in several apps now.
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