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Issues for the GraphHopper Directions API
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Support for Open Location Code #31

Closed karussell closed 4 years ago

karussell commented 8 years ago

We should not only support GPS coordinates but also open location code from Google. Standing under Apache License. See here for a good comparison where open location code stands out from its logical point of view and being pure algorithmic based as well as the code license.

We need to clarify

An alternative would be https://github.com/roberdam/Xaddress

karussell commented 4 years ago

We won't support this

mmd-osm commented 4 years ago

Apologies for hijacking this issue a bit. Maybe you've seen the discussion to implement OLC on osm.org which has attracted a lot of attention in recent years: https://github.com/openstreetmap/openstreetmap-website/issues/1807.

As you seem to have spent some time analyzing OLC in more detail and eventually decided against it, your reasoning might be helpful for the discussion on osm.org as well.

karussell commented 4 years ago

I prefer OLC over all other existing "codes". But IMO the client can&should decode OLC and use coordinates for all API related stuff.