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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.

68 mentions on Hacker News by 55 people: 15 stories, 53 comments · first 2015-02-11 · latest 2024-08-23

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  1. …spell meaningful words. The relevant section of the definition is short, and an interesting read: https://github.com/google/open-location-code/blob/master/doc...
    comment by strken · 2018-09-21 · in Death by Database
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    Google Defines Open Location Code
    story by anabis2 · 2018-08-27 · 0 comments
  3. Looking at the FAQ ( https://github.com/google/open-location-code/wiki/Evaluation... ), it appears that Plus Codes are very similar to the Maidenhead codes, except in these respects: - Maidenhead codes contain vowels, which the Plus code…
    comment by telotortium · 2018-03-18 · in Google Maps has found a better way to navigate India’s chaotic roads
  4. …would be totally opaque and hard to even enter with a US keyboard, let alone commit to memory. [0] https://github.com/google/open-location-code/wiki/Evaluation...
    comment by eat_veggies · 2018-03-17 · in Google Maps has found a better way to navigate India’s chaotic roads
  5. …innovation over it is increased precision, and a different symbol alphabet to reduce profanity. [1] https://github.com/google/open-location-code/wiki/Evaluation... [2] https://github.com/google/open-location-code/wiki/Evaluation...
    comment by niftich · 2018-03-15 · in Open Location Code: Easier location encoding
  6. Makes me think of what3words.com edit: why they're taking a novel approach: https://github.com/google/open-location-code/wiki/Evaluation...
    comment by fouc · 2018-03-15 · in Open Location Code: Easier location encoding
  7. …Code (OLC, for short), an open-source project initiated by a group of Google engineers. [2] https://github.com/google/open-location-code/blob/master/doc... - Definition document - Open Location Code: An Open Source Standard for Addresses,…
    comment by yarapavan · 2018-03-15 · in Open Location Code: Easier location encoding
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    Open Location Code: An Open Source Standard for Addresses
    story by gregknicholson · 2018-03-14 · 1 comment
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    Evaluation of Location Encoding Systems
    story by CharlesDodgson · 2018-02-13 · 0 comments
  10. …ago, and one of the most informative was this article: Evaluation of Location Encoding Systems ( https://github.com/google/open-location-code/wiki/Evaluation... )
    comment by lioeters · 2017-10-30 · in Nigeria has become the seventh country to adopt what3words for mail deliveries
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    Google: Evaluation of Location Encoding Systems
    story by espeed · 2017-03-23 · 0 comments
  12. I like this comparison: https://github.com/google/open-location-code/blob/master/doc... Which makes it also clear why open location code is really smart (disclaimer: I'm not involved nor a google fan boy ;)) But e.g. the fact is lovely…
    comment by karussell · 2016-08-11 · in Show HN: Give 7B people an instant physical address
  13. Google's Open Location Code is better. https://github.com/google/open-location-code
    comment by bumbledraven · 2016-08-10 · in Show HN: Give 7B people an instant physical address
  14. Probably of interest is the comparison to other systems: https://github.com/google/open-location-code/blob/master/doc...
    comment by rakoo · 2016-06-21 · in Open Location Codes
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    Open Location Codes
    story by tantalor · 2016-06-21 · 1 comment
  16. https://github.com/google/open-location-code/blob/master/doc...
    comment by ilaksh · 2016-06-14 · in Mongolia is changing all its addresses to three-word phrases
  17. Yeah they list a lot of requirements on this page: https://github.com/google/open-location-code/blob/master/doc... Oddly I don't see redundancy (error detection or better yet, error correction) in there but it seems to be an important part…
    comment by nulltype · 2016-01-24 · in Open Location Code
  18. …existing systems. One advantage of open location code is to avoid characters 0 vs O or l vs 1. https://github.com/google/open-location-code/blob/master/doc...
    comment by mtmail · 2015-02-11 · in Geolocation with 3m accuracy and error correction in 10 symbols