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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...
...yep, the short one that you can only really use with #GoogleMaps
I avoid them because #SurveillanceCapitalism and also it's really useless at detail compared to @organicmaps or #osmand
@organicmaps supports the long version not the short.
#what3words is awful for reasons that the fedi discusses at length.
numeric lat,lon are hard to read and #signal makes it impossible to copy them from a message.
degrees, minutes, seconds don't share well.
I wish OLC was better supported.
The convoluted way of getting the full-code from Google, is to use their map here: https://plus.codes/map
Addressing is a big challenge in #OpenStreetMap, so I often share that currently, the best way to provide an agnostic "address" that can be used in many platforms are OLCs.
Downstream apps relying on OSM that support OLC include: @osmapp @organicmaps , #osmand
re Actually, both #Osmand and @organicmaps partially supports the truncated version you'll find in #GoogleMaps -- but sometimes they're ambiguous because OLCs can generate similar codes when locations are close to each other. That's why Google adds the locality, which makes it longer.
Keep it short and sweet, and avoid the ambiguity by using the full 11-character OLC.
@MapAmore @gowin @organicmaps @osmapp
That's not my experience, perhaps you have a different version. e.g. "FVRC+CV London" taken from google maps for the Tate Britain museum. Enter into @organicmaps and it just list a zillion "London road..." entries. Remove the London part and it comes up with some co-ordinates ... but for somewhere entirely different in UK!
I confirm that #Osmand did actually work though with this code, but I'm sure it didn't with another, maybe I needed to download maps.
@organicmaps will try to return "relevant" results based on what maps you've downloaded, and your reported location.
@MapAmore @organicmaps @osmapp @gowin oh right, thanks for this info!
What a weird feature though! If you put on a short code & area, you get noise: no use. If you put in just the short code you get a position near you (that you've downloaded?) that could be the wrong place. So the way to use the feature is: find the area yourself and zoom in, then search the code - quite error prone.