The Open Location Code (OLC) is a geocode system for identifying an area anywhere on the Earth.
It was developed at Google's Zürich engineering office, and released late October 2014. Open Location Codes are also referred to as "plus codes".
Open Location Codes are a way of encoding location into a form that is easier to use than showing coordinates in the usual form of latitude and longitude. They are designed to be used like street addresses, and may be especially useful in places where there is no formal system to identify buildings, such as street names, house numbers, and post codes.Open...