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In my first naïve thought this seems trivial. "Just" map WGS84 coordinates to a less clunky identifier. What am I missing?
by Double_a_92 8y ago
In my first naïve thought this seems trivial. "Just" map WGS84 coordinates to a less clunky identifier. What am I missing?
- ascorbic 8y agoQuite a bit, it seems. https://github.com/google/open-location-code/wiki/Evaluation-of-Location-Encoding-Systems https://github.com/google/open-location-code/wiki/Evaluation...
- Double_a_92 8y agoThis is all I found about it: > Cheap GPS devices have existed for at least 14 years [etrex], and yet latitude and longitude coordinates are still not widely used by people to specify locations. We think that this shows latitude and longitude have too many disadvantages to be adopted for a street addressing solution. But still, isn't their solution just a "wrapper" around gps coordinates? How is it different than encoding 2 decimal numbers into a short text identifier?