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I really liked this, but their current website doesn't help their cause. Their old website dropped you straight into the map to find out any place's Plus Code,
by cprecioso 8y ago
I really liked this, but their current website doesn't help their cause. Their old website dropped you straight into the map to find out any place's Plus Code, as well as a box to enter a plus code and open that location in a number of mapping apps/websites (Google Maps, Apple Maps, HERE, OSM...). It looked useful at first glance.
The new website looks like a standard marketing page that is trying to sell me something I don't need, and they have also lost the third-party linking. I think the immediacy of its usefulness is completely lost now.
- ReverseCold 8y agoGoogle Maps supports it, so I think they're assuming most people will just use that now.
- BonesJustice 8y agoInterestingly, if I drop my plus code into Google, it shows a pin in exactly the right location. But tapping the map graphic opens up the Google Maps app, which jumps to a location ~200 miles away.
- rntksi 8y agoIt did that for me too. I found out afterwards that plus codes have two forms, a short and long. If you enter just the short form, it won't be accurate without the ", city" part (e.g. 2A6A+1Q is short form, must be entered like "2A6A+1Q, Beijing", long form of that would have another 4-5 letters in front e.g. 7XQW2A6A+1Q)