I don't think anyone says we should have the coordinates -- there are many other systems which are open and not patent encumbered. https://wiki.openstreetmap.o

I don't think anyone says we should have the coordinates -- there are many other systems which are open and not patent encumbered. https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/What3words https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/What3words lists all the problems with the system as well as provides some alternatives. I personally like "plus codes": for your location it would be X4M7+M9 . Over a noisy channel, "xray four mike seven" is much easier to recognize correctly than difference between "steak" and "stake", especially if the person is not a native english speaker.