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This feels like an accidentally arrogant, Western-centric way of looking at addresses that might not conform to our description of an address. Like, “the White
by numair 8y ago
This feels like an accidentally arrogant, Western-centric way of looking at addresses that might not conform to our description of an address. Like, “the White house on the hill in John’s village” is as much of an address as 12 Whitehouse Lane, Johnsvillage CA or whatever.
This is the same as saying people don’t have money because their wealth is in forms that aren’t immediately liquid, or translatable into dollars... We need to tread carefully here. Especially if we want people to actually embrace this over far more human-friendly existing forms.
- tylerl 8y agoThe primary users of these codes are places where politics prevent addresses from being assigned (government doesn't want to admit people live there). The codes give them a real address that your phone can navigate to, and for them it's working just fine.
- kiriakasis 8y ago> This feels like an accidentally arrogant, Western-centric way of looking at addresses nope, many places simply do not have addresses. many places do not have streets. And unless you can find a more global addressing format that does not require translation of complex sentences we can only use location based addresses for a lot of places. Essentially a plus code is something that you can paste on amazon for a delivery. Now we could say that web giants like amazon are a danger to the world, a danger ever so ominous as so alluring. Still to the aim of identifying a place for delivery many places do not have addresses.