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If you abandon the requirement to completely replace the existing systems you can have a much smaller wordlist. For example, if we trust people to know what cou
by iudqnolq 6y ago
If you abandon the requirement to completely replace the existing systems you can have a much smaller wordlist. For example, if we trust people to know what county they are in we could have duplicate triples in each country. Arguably we could go even smaller, to the national subdivision (eg state) level
- ehsankia 6y agoIsn't that what... zip codes/postal codes are? The whole point of systems like this is to be able to point to any place on earth.
- iudqnolq 6y agoThe point is to easily uniquely identify a point. I'm arguing the tuple (California, some, simple, words) solves for that use case better than (cromulently, extraneous, uniquely). We're (I hope) not doing this just to be different but because it has useful new properties. For example, street address + zip isn't ideal when you're talking to Search and Rescue. Edit: You can think of this like 9 square meter resolution zip codes with a human friendly representation, yes.
- ehsankia 6y agoFair enough. That being said, I think PlusCodes are basically the better worldwide "zipcodes", and while they don't have the "three simple words" property, they do have the property you speak of. You can basically truncate the first 4 character of the 8 character chunk if you specify a city/country that's within one block. You can also add arbitrary precision after the + sign by adding more sub-blocks.
- iudqnolq 6y agoThat does sound great. I'll look into it.