Re: Open Location Code

Dear Frans,

> A colleague pointed me at a new way of identifying a location: Open
> Location Code <http://openlocationcode.com/>, an initiative from Google.
> It is a way to identify a location with a short code, an alternative to
> a postal address. Apparently the codes are assigned based on a  global
> lat/lon grid. Well, the short explanation on the website is clear enough.

A similar initiative, that was presented during the 2014 Linking 
Geospatial Data workshop organized by W3C / OGC, is 
http://what3words.com/ ... where here, anyone can bid and buy 3 words to 
refer to any of the 57 trillion 3mx3m squares on earth.

   Raphaël

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Received on Friday, 21 August 2015 09:42:01 UTC