Unfortunately we're conflated addresses with coordinates, but fundamentally addresses are not geo-coordinates. Addresses are really just an ancient (500+ years!

Unfortunately we're conflated addresses with coordinates, but fundamentally addresses are not geo-coordinates. Addresses are really just an ancient (500+ years!) short-hand for giving a person a set of rough directions to a "place", with the person supplying that last mile of figuring from context exactly where they are going. It is impressive how far we've taken this technology, but it is really starting to falter as the information age has matured. From my perspective any solution, like this one, that tries to solve the problem of addresses through the lens of coordinates is doomed to failure. The reason is that there are just too many use cases that raw coordinates cannot supply context for. For example when I ask for directions to a restaurant, the context of who I am and what my relation to the restaurant is matters quite a lot. A set of coordinates handed out uniformly to all who ask does nothing for my particular use case. Plumbers, health inspectors, and delivery drivers don't use the same entrance, or parking, as ride share or pedestrians. I think it would be more productive to move to a system that is capable of capturing and relaying these kinds of relations, or at least taking as them as input. Better geo-coordinates miss the forest for the trees.