Add Plus Codes to addresses

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Add Plus Codes to addresses #2161

Open djaiss opened 5 years ago

djaiss commented 5 years ago

Bonus points: Make getting Plus Codes (https://plus.codes/) a possibility?

Originally posted by @virtadpt in https://github.com/monicahq/monica/issues/2108#issuecomment-442272944

djaiss commented 5 years ago

@virtadpt can you explain how are these generated? Would you like the ability to store this information, or generate a plus code address based on an existing address?

tbirrell commented 5 years ago

I don't see a PHP API yet. We could go with JS, but that might not be worth the hassle.

opie4624 commented 5 years ago

Related: https://what3words.com/

virtadpt commented 5 years ago

A much more succinct description of the heuristic and algorithm than in the spec: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Location_Code#Specification

Here's a PHP implementation: https://github.com/salavert/open-location-code