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(3geonames codes are made up of 3 place names and show a semantic likeliness when spatially close - an “anti-feature” of what3words, for example)
The slides for a recent talk at Perlcon 2019 announcing the system are here: https://3geonames.org/riga.html
From my point of view, this approach is harder to remember than remembering 3 words (what3words). Try to remember: 6GCRMQPX9G 3FHMRV5JMX 8FJM2QRW78 Or try to remember: tell.fantasy.animal zone.house.horses home.penguin.room Also what3words have got bad thinks as that similar words are far away from each other and the words location are not properly translated
But don't confuse glorified.bodily.passage https://map.what3words.com/glorified.bodily.passage with glorifies.bodily.passage https://map.what3words.com/glorifies.bodily.passage, which is in a totally different part of the world.
1) Opensource and free
2) Can be used offline
3) Designed to be used in low tech environments and decoded by hand
4) Multilanguage
5) Error correction incorporated with visual avatar.
6) Short code for storing or linking.
7) Works with any map.
8) Yow know is an address when you see it.
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Here is a comparision side by side of each option
For GPS : -6.7184 , 129.5080
XADDRESS: 7150 Magical Pearl - Maluku, Indonesia
WHAT3WORDS: percolator.surmount.retooled
GEOHASH: qyu1g0by7
MAPCODE: VQ6.1MFD
OPENLOCATIONCODE: 6Q5F 7GJ5+J6
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Article about it: https://medium.com/hackernoon/an-algorithm-that-can-give-an-...
Github: https://github.com/roberdam/Xaddress
(Disclosure: im the creator of Xaddress.)
Check out UBID (https://ubid.pnnl.gov/) which uses plus.codes
In some Latin countries, road names are given after "important" people (for a vague definition of important). On the cultural side, having a standard for naming like this removes that and I think it could be a roadblock for adoption. Politicians' names are specially used for naming roads/squares and they are always after promoting their names in every new opportunity. On the other side, I really like that the code ca…
Verified by sending a physical card to the location, adjustable by the owner, query-able via an API. Post-offices can perform a lookup and calculate postage fees in this way.
Voluntary nomads (techies) could subsidize the service for involuntary ones (refugees).
So this is based on GPS, right? How does this system deal with tectonic plate shift? A house may move by a couple meters over years, which will exceed the accuracy of the 12 digit code. At the very least the code should include a timestamp (year is probably precise enough).
Why should it handle that? If you move a house (say, a trailer home) from Nebraska to Oregon, you wouldn't expect the location to stay the same. OLC encodes position on the globe (basically angles), not points on the crust or other territorial features.
However: https://plus.codes/8VG3+J4 Says it couldn't find it.
Did I make a typo? There is no mention of a checksum in the doc.
I'll forever be mad that my country (Ireland) hired some firm to create eircode, which is a proprietary geo system. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Postal_addresses_in_the_Republ... You can't discern the eircode for a given address, as far as I am aware, without looking it up, and lookups are limited to 10 by paywall. We paid 27m euro for what has already been solved by open source, and for some reason we have to conti…
