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I guess it's probably working the same way as what3words (by the way, I hope they are going to improve their i18n version..). By the way, I can totally confirm

I guess it's probably working the same way as what3words (by the way, I hope they are going to improve their i18n version..). By the way, I can totally confirm myself the "close to the blue bar" kind of location description in the article, I've seen this kind of things in the database a lot in my previous company.

mtmail 11y ago
Hmm, I guess the FAQ might just been misleading and by "requesting" the app just displays a pregenerated code for that location. I work on geocoding (https://geocoder.opencagedata.com/ https://geocoder.opencagedata.com/) and even in industrialized countries, let's say Spain, I see address like "On kilometer 4 of autovia 5", often from real estate listings. It's a challenge to map that. Yahoo!'s geocoder/routing made progress on those queries but their API gets switched in March (long announced, not related to the expected mass-firing later today).
- gregpilling 11y ago
  Even in industrialized countries like the USA, I have shipped products to "Gas Station, Small Town, Kansas". This was very hard to put into the shipping software, but finally it worked. I spoke to the customer on the phone, and he said "You can't miss it, it's the only gas station for 20 miles" . Surprised me that it worked to get them their stuff, but I guess they do it all the time.
  - logfromblammo 11y ago
    A lot of counties, particularly the rectangular ones, define addresses throughout the entire county by establishing a block size (like 1/8 mile), counting the number of blocks in one direction from the origin point of the county, and multiplying by 100 to get the address number. So if state highway 50 runs north-south, in a county where the origin point is the county courthouse, and the gas station on it is 8.6 miles north of the courthouse, its address would be "6880 N Hwy 50" or "6881 N Hwy 50", depending on which side of the road it was on. If the farm supply is 9.2 miles north of the courthouse, it would be "7360 N Hwy 50". If your road has curves, you just switch the direction letter between N, S, E, or W. Sometimes a county will set the address origin point as the southwest corner, so there are only north and east addresses. This system of addressing owes a lot to the Jefferson grid system of the Public Land Survey System.

mtmail 11y ago

Hmm, I guess the FAQ might just been misleading and by "requesting" the app just displays a pregenerated code for that location. I work on geocoding (https://geocoder.opencagedata.com/ https://geocoder.opencagedata.com/) and even in industrialized countries, let's say Spain, I see address like "On kilometer 4 of autovia 5", often from real estate listings. It's a challenge to map that. Yahoo!'s geocoder/routing made progress on those queries but their API gets switched in March (long announced, not related to the expected mass-firing later today).

gregpilling 11y ago
Even in industrialized countries like the USA, I have shipped products to "Gas Station, Small Town, Kansas". This was very hard to put into the shipping software, but finally it worked. I spoke to the customer on the phone, and he said "You can't miss it, it's the only gas station for 20 miles" . Surprised me that it worked to get them their stuff, but I guess they do it all the time.
- logfromblammo 11y ago
  A lot of counties, particularly the rectangular ones, define addresses throughout the entire county by establishing a block size (like 1/8 mile), counting the number of blocks in one direction from the origin point of the county, and multiplying by 100 to get the address number. So if state highway 50 runs north-south, in a county where the origin point is the county courthouse, and the gas station on it is 8.6 miles north of the courthouse, its address would be "6880 N Hwy 50" or "6881 N Hwy 50", depending on which side of the road it was on. If the farm supply is 9.2 miles north of the courthouse, it would be "7360 N Hwy 50". If your road has curves, you just switch the direction letter between N, S, E, or W. Sometimes a county will set the address origin point as the southwest corner, so there are only north and east addresses. This system of addressing owes a lot to the Jefferson grid system of the Public Land Survey System.