> Generally, I would say standard addresses are better, because streets are already a form of information compression, since you always indicate a position on a

> Generally, I would say standard addresses are better, because streets are already a form of information compression, since you always indicate a position on a street, you almost never indicate a position in the middle on a forest of a field. > GPS has a military use because the military go off-road, but citizens really don't (99.999% of the time) This is true for most of the world but not true for a lot of Africa - which does not have a real address system and relies on describing where a person lives and then doing a pin drop (websites will just accept pin drop).