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In some places (even in "first-world" countries like Spain, my own experience) postal services, the police and visitors don't have a clue where your house is lo

In some places (even in "first-world" countries like Spain, my own experience) postal services, the police and visitors don't have a clue where your house is located at. I'd pay 0,50€ per delivery if amazon.es would allow me to specify a what3word-address and have UPS/DHL/etc use it. For years the drivers have been calling us, asking where the address ist at... Also really fun when there were burglars in your house and the police doesn't know where to drive to.

detaro 5y ago
But as parent says, for that use case, the word-ness isn't relevant - picking coordinates of a map or any of the other position encodings would work just as well. And not require paying W3W license fees for no good reason.
maxerickson 5y ago
In the US we bit the bullet and regularized addresses (to the county level, which is typically the biggest entity providing urgent emergency services). A rural place I used to live formerly had a named road, that got switched to a number that roughly locates it east to west in the county, and then the house number was set to roughly give the distance north from the nearest crossroad to the south. So anyone that understands the addressing system in the county can basically drive directly to any address without any further information (with perhaps a few short detours where roads don't continue or the like). Of course this works much better in a place that has relatively new properly lines that were drawn based on a regular survey, but I'd think there would be some momentum to at least make things simpler over time.
pinum 5y ago
It might be worth a try even if Amazon doesn't have an official field for it. Amazon UK has an "add delivery instructions" button in the address book, intended for building codes and suchlike. Failing that, you could try writing "what3words: foo.bar.baz" as your name.

detaro 5y ago

But as parent says, for that use case, the word-ness isn't relevant - picking coordinates of a map or any of the other position encodings would work just as well. And not require paying W3W license fees for no good reason.

maxerickson 5y ago

In the US we bit the bullet and regularized addresses (to the county level, which is typically the biggest entity providing urgent emergency services). A rural place I used to live formerly had a named road, that got switched to a number that roughly locates it east to west in the county, and then the house number was set to roughly give the distance north from the nearest crossroad to the south. So anyone that understands the addressing system in the county can basically drive directly to any address without any further information (with perhaps a few short detours where roads don't continue or the like). Of course this works much better in a place that has relatively new properly lines that were drawn based on a regular survey, but I'd think there would be some momentum to at least make things simpler over time.

pinum 5y ago

It might be worth a try even if Amazon doesn't have an official field for it. Amazon UK has an "add delivery instructions" button in the address book, intended for building codes and suchlike. Failing that, you could try writing "what3words: foo.bar.baz" as your name.