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All an address really does is act as a set of instructions for a postal worker. It is not an explicit definition of location and can change over time. And ma
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All an address really does is act as a set of instructions for a postal worker. It is not an explicit definition of location and can change over time. And mail companies will not necessarily maintain a database of the actual location of the letter box or door. It is enough to just follow the instructions. You need these kind of geocodes where a short instruction is not possible. A lot of Africa is like this. And maybe it could work for drone deliverys where you want to target an exact location.
- lifthrasiir 8y agoI did mention the Mongol Post as an exception, so I think you do not really disagree with me. Also, I think human-readable addresses are really transitional (that is, there may exist needs for written geocodes as a near-replacement of addresses but not indefinitely). For drone deliveries, users will simply let their smartphones determine GPS coordinates instead of typing geocodes anyway. This does not work indoors but flying drones won't get there :-)
- masukomi 8y ago> All an address really does is act as a set of instructions for a postal worker. I think you are unfamiliar with Japanese addressing. While it has been changing since 1962 the older style was basically instructionless. It was just a unique identifier for some place within the town. Maybe it'd have a number that corresponded to the plot of land being registered with the land registry, which in no way resembles a street number. About the only thing you can say about addresses internationally is that they are pointers to a location. The definition of "location" varies wildly in specificity and there is no guarantee of instructions or relative location metadata.