You missed http://what2numbers.org/ and http://www.what3fucks.com/ in the comparison.
Show HN: Give 7B people an instant physical address
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#32This is really clever. It would be incredible if this took off and became a standard way to represent addresses.
Thanks king_magic, at least is a start, and because is Opensource it can evolve with the needs of the people.
It's really a great idea. It's something I didn't know I wanted until I saw it. My (admittedly potentially naive view) is that it has the potential to simplify many things in the mapping/shipping world - it's so specific. No messy address ambiguity.
I also love the idea of an embeddable "Xaddress badge" (e.g. this image: http://bit.ly/2biI3YY) - unless of course I misunderstood what that is.
Maybe you could work the "legacy" address into that badge as well? Just thinking it would be useful for mentally placing an address - e.g., if you give me a raw GPS address, I have no idea where that is - but if you tell me it's somewhere on 5th avenue in manhattan, I know roughly where that is.
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#33Is there any reason the code is written half Spanish half English? As I'm from the Netherlands my understanding of the English language is great but because this is in Spanish I have to use Google translate to read te code.
The original code was written in spanish (my native language) and I translated to english, let me know your particular problem with the code and I will change it.
None of it appears to be translated to English apart from the messages displayed to the user. Without comments in your code and especially when you abbreviate variable names, it's difficult to visually scan the code and have any idea what's going on. You have to mentally process the program to try and reason about what any variables or functions are actually doing.
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#34Is there any reason the code is written half Spanish half English? As I'm from the Netherlands my understanding of the English language is great but because this is in Spanish I have to use Google translate to read te code.
The original code was written in spanish (my native language) and I translated to english, let me know your particular problem with the code and I will change it.
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#35 8512 WANT ILLEGITIMATE
Not bad.
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#36Yet another location encoding. Why not MapCode[1]?
>Designed to be used in low tech environments
What are supposed uses of encoded lattitude and longitude in "low tech environments", other than simple transfer?
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#37Earlier quoted context omitted.
The original code was written in spanish (my native language) and I translated to english, let me know your particular problem with the code and I will change it.
None of it appears to be translated to English apart from the messages displayed to the user. Without comments in your code and especially when you abbreviate variable names, it's difficult to visually scan the code and have any idea what's going on. You have to mentally process the program to try and reason about what any variables or functions are actually doing.
Thanks for the feedback, I will work to translate all the variables to make it more readable, in the meanwhile you can check the logic behind the problem here:
https://github.com/roberdam/Xaddress/tree/master/by_hand
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#38My current location is 5308 AFRAID ANUS. Might be best to exclude ANUS from the word list.
Mine is BASTARD ASSHOLES
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#39My current location is 5308 AFRAID ANUS. Might be best to exclude ANUS from the word list.
Note you can click on many of the words and cycle over alternatives.
If you look at the word list, there are many options for each set of numbers. "Anus" could equivalently be any of:
ANUS CUFFLINK GRETNA EMPT WAIFS UNAS FUMOTO GUIDOS ASUN GOOFER GANTER ACKNOWLEDGMENTS YOCHEVED OVERCOMETH WIFIE USAN EDICIONES UNDERPOWERED CALIFIORNIA DESPRES
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#40Yet another location encoding. Why not MapCode[1]? >Designed to be used in low tech environments What are supposed uses of encoded lattitude and longitude in "low tech environments", other than simple transfer? 1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MapCode
It looks like the only thing it adds to MapCode is the pain of localization