> I really do not understand why "Hi Ibrahim, I live at Alpha-Unicorn-Honey, just drop here when you are in the area" would beat "The train stops at Nadira, fro

> I really do not understand why "Hi Ibrahim, I live at Alpha-Unicorn-Honey, just drop here when you are in the area" would beat "The train stops at Nadira, from there you walk 2 miles in the direction of the sunset, when you reach a rock looking like a kneeling woman you turn in the direction of the face and walk anoter mile - and there is my hut". You misunderstand. It's not trying to be better at directions, it's trying to be better at unambiguously specifying a location. If you're mailing something to someone where there are no roads, then this gives you a way to address them with more precision than you could do before. You just need a postman with a $40 smart phone with GPS (or a look-up-table). You should really think about this as "easy to remember and communicate GPS coordinates".