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What's wrong with just using floor names, e.g. "First floor"?
by fredley 8y ago
What's wrong with just using floor names, e.g. "First floor"?
- sn41 8y agoYes, this is the current solution. I am a bit dissatisfied that it is not a "uniform" address scheme. It would be nice if an app can guide you to the exact store on the exact floor based on one location code.
- tylerhou 8y agoFloors can be weird; I’m not sure how you’d handle a hotel skipping the 13th floor, for instance. Also, are floors 0 indexes or 1 indexed? It therefore probably shouldn’t be built into the protocol.
- coldtea 8y agoOr it should be built into the protocol and specify a specific ruleset -- if a country/building follows another, it's up to the user to translate.
- roselan 8y agoIn some places it can be -1 or 2 indexed so that a building can have more floors than legally specified.
- bryanrasmussen 8y agoAlso some buildings could have been added to after building and a basement turned into a living area, so -1.
- 5555624 8y agoWho determines what is the "first floor"? Last week I had a medical appointment. The doctor's office was on the 6th floor; but, it was 7th floor counting up, as the building's ground floor is the "Lobby."
- vinay427 8y agoThis is normal in many countries but it's extremely uncommon in theUS, where as you implied the ground floor is typically the "first" (in the numerical sense) floor.
- astura 8y agoThis is a very common numbering scheme in some countries (at least most of Europe) but very uncommon in the US.
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