"Open Location Code" vs. "Plus Code"

[Jeffrey Friedl]

This site and the GitHub docs generally use "Open Location Code", but the flashy https://plus.codes/ uses "Plus Code".

Is there a reason for two unrelated names? Does one have any kind of priority over the other?

[Rasťo Šrámek]

Hi Jeffrey,

the naming pattern we are following (or trying to follow...) is that Open Location Code / OLC is the "technology", while plus code(s) (note no caps) are the individual codes themselves. Initially OLC was the only name but a number of people felt that it is technical, long, and difficult to translate so we moved to using plus codes at least for non-technical outreach.

Cheers,

Rasto

On Thu, Mar 22, 2018 at 9:08 AM, Jeffrey Friedl <jfr...@gmail.com> wrote:

This site and the GitHub docs generally use "Open Location Code", but the flashy https://plus.codes/ uses "Plus Code".

Is there a reason for two unrelated names? Does one have any kind of priority over the other?

--
Public site: http://www.openlocationcode.com/
Github project: https://github.com/google/open-location-code
Demo site: http://plus.codes/
---
You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "open-location-code" group.
To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to open-location-code+unsub...@googlegroups.com.
To post to this group, send email to open-location-code@googlegroups.com.
Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/open-location-code.
To view this discussion on the web, visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/open-location-code/0c787c38-69f0-4842-a55f-40f6920a92b7%40googlegroups.com.
For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.