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A Geocode Is Not an Address
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#12Previous HN thread on issues with What3Words, the GeoCoding company mentioned in this article:
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#13First of all, no one should be using 3 words after Google's plus codes were released and became available in Google maps
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#14Infomercial. He pushed What3Words all through the article but then with a few weasel words tried to be impartial in the end. Cute. Almost.
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#15It's been discussed before, but what 3 words had a ton of flaws compared to other systems like pluscodes. What they do have is a great PR person who gets them fantastic advertising article like this one. https://github.com/google/open-location-code/wiki/Evaluation...
The app is fantastic though. It makes the whole process of coding and decoding super easy. Usability is an effective solution to a lot of the technical flaws.
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#16I wonder if the Maidenhead locator system devised by radio amateurs in 1980 and still used by all hams today would be a better fit. This uses geocodes not much longer than a zip code which are not random.
It's easy to check if two locators are close just by looking at them and of course I know my locator as it's easy to remember.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maidenhead_Locator_System
Here is a Google map showing grid locators as you zoom in: https://www.egloff.eu/googlemap_v3/carto.php
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#17I wonder if the Maidenhead locator system devised by radio amateurs in 1980 and still used by all hams today would be a better fit. This uses geocodes not much longer than a zip code which are not random. It's easy to check if two locators are close just by looking at them and of course I know my locator as it's easy to remember. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maidenhead_Locator_System Here is a Google map showing g…
Non-mobile link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maidenhead_Locator_System
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#18Those new locating systems are solving problems which most of the people don't have. They make it even worse.
We have street addresses in the most of the cities. In case someone call me if I can come to e.g. "Delnicka 43, Prague, Czech Republic" I know immediately where it is and I can say I can be there in 20 minutes. In case she tell me "mission back envy" I must connect to the Internet and check where exactly is it. So I must have some device and connection. And in emergency situations every minute counts.
For places where street address system missing there is geographic coordinate system such as GPS which is widely used and acceptable by (if not all) the most of emergency services. And it's not GPS-dependent only, such coordinates you can find out in many ways (e.g. paper map, position of the Space objects etc.).
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#19Those new locating systems are solving problems which most of the people don't have. They make it even worse. We have street addresses in the most of the cities. In case someone call me if I can come to e.g. "Delnicka 43, Prague, Czech Republic" I know immediately where it is and I can say I can be there in 20 minutes. In case she tell me "mission back envy" I must connect to the Internet and check where exactly is i…
The last time I was in the Czech Republic (not Prague) I was staying on a long street where the street numbers seemed completely arbitrary. I passed 954, 37, 238, 952, 950, 77a,... all on my way to find the inn at number 120. Google maps directed me to a location 600m away, near number 124. Is that common in Czechia?
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#20Seems to me that the article starts with an argument that Puerto Rico’s addresses are confusing to US addressing because they follow Spanish heritage. And then argues that replacing with Geocoding would lose the heritage connection. Presumably making addresses US standard would lose the same heritage connections. Also seems to fail to recognise that the zip code or postal code part of the address is a specialised, po…
They would have at least some of the same names in them (maybe just street name and city?), so they wouldn't be lost completely.