Re: Open Location Code

2015-08-21 11:41 GMT+02:00 Raphaël Troncy <raphael.troncy@eurecom.fr>:

> 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.


Thanks, I wasn't aware of this initiative. But it seems the Open Location
Code people were, because What3words is mentioned in their comparison of
location encoding systems
<https://github.com/google/open-location-code/blob/master/docs/comparison.adoc>
(see
the secion 'Web-based services').

I like the idea of using natural language words for accurately identifying
a location, because words are easy to remember. But words are best
remembered in one's native language. I have just looked up the three
English words for my house but I have already forgotten them.

Anyway, this does show there are many ways of identifying a location next
to geometry and address.

Regards,
Frans


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