I'm involved with a startup that I believe has a wonderful solution to this and other related problems. Our website: http://qalocate.com/ http://qalocate.com/

I'm involved with a startup that I believe has a wonderful solution to this and other related problems. Our website: http://qalocate.com/ http://qalocate.com/ Our platform: http://qalocate.bamsaas.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/QA-Locate-Platform-Overview.pdf http://qalocate.bamsaas.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/QA-Lo... The biggest issue with solutions like this isn't that they aren't clever, or even that they aren't better than say a geohash or lat/lon, but that they have the wrong target. Computers don't really care since its just as easy to parse a geohash, a lat/lon, or an open location code. The tricky bit is when humans get involved. Its humans that have way more limitations when it comes to using complex systems. And frankly, humans still use addresses because the system co-evolved with us and our needs. Addresses solve the problem well enough, and have "outs" for when they don't work. For a bit more in-depth discussion on this see: http://qalocate.bamsaas.com/2018/04/04/addresses-are-complicated/ http://qalocate.bamsaas.com/2018/04/04/addresses-are-complic... So if we want to replace addresses, then we really have to think outside the box. Fortunately, the web has done a lot of the heavy pushing by introducing all kinds of new, useful, and exploitable semantics that we can apply in other domains. Humans are pretty good at using names for things. When computers were first networked, we soon replaced IP addresses with names. Thus was DNS born. We then combined that with another id, and soon we had email. We believe that a similar system can be used for locations. No one really cares about the exact geohash or lat/lon of a location, or the niftyness of your coordinate system. Instead, what we need are memorable names. So why not just use names? That's what LNS (http://qalocate.bamsaas.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/QA-Locate-Location-Naming-System-LNS%E2%84%A2.pdf http://qalocate.bamsaas.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/QA-Lo...) is. It works very similarly to DNS and allows one to link arbitrary names to exact coordinate locations, structures, or even regions. For example, I can have "thelittlenag.frontdoor" if I want to point someone to the exact coordinate of my front door. If I want drone deliveries, then maybe I tell Amazon to use "thelittlenag.deliverydrone". The lawn guy can use "thelittlenag.propertyboundaries" to figure where my property lines start and end. And "thelittlenag.house" and "thelittlenag.gardenshed" can logically reference as entities(!) the two structures we have on our property. PM me if you have any questions.