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Open Location Code is a library to generate short codes, called "plus codes", that can be used as digital addresses where street addresses don't exist.
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Official implementation inaccurately refers to a plus code as encoding a "point" #442

Closed fulldecent closed 1 year ago

fulldecent commented 3 years ago

In the CPP implementation:

The codes can be easily read and remembered, and truncating codes converts them from a point to an area, meaning that where extreme accuracy is not required the codes can be shortened.

This is inaccurate. Plus codes never encode a point. They encode areas of various sizes.

fulldecent commented 3 years ago

Recommended tag: implementation

fulldecent commented 3 years ago

This is fixed in https://github.com/google/open-location-code/pull/463 by specifying:

A Plus Code represents a locus of coordinates ("area")...