#pluscodes — Public Fediverse posts
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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...
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Open Location Code
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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!)
#FediMetaIs there any software on the #Fediverse doing this?
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The news writes about #OvertureMaps as a Google Maps competitor, but it also will make a free and open source Google invention more useful: Short #OLC / #PlusCodes can probably use the new datasets to fully put the black box myth to rest. (Reverse geocoding without relying on Google. Nominatim already enables this but is big and sluggish)