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Its a nice little thought experiment, but current place names have been optimized for human memory. Objects, names, events are all synaptically linked to enable
by MrDosu 12y ago
Its a nice little thought experiment, but current place names have been optimized for human memory. Objects, names, events are all synaptically linked to enable the average human to master a relatively complex set of locations. The provided system also completely excludes cultural background (also important for how "good" a location name is for a given person). tl;dr: Systems like this already exist (e.g. longitude/lattitude). The proposed system is on the same usability scale for individuals like existing systems. Does not improve anything.
- roberdam 12y agoThanks for your comments MrDosu, I definitely agree with you, but the Location Aware Names concept can be used to take language and cultural factors into account , to create a reference that is indistinguible from any other non Location Aware Name , fast forward to slide 47 and let me know if that answer your comments!
- MrDosu 12y agoWhy would a town that historically has not needed street names have a need for convulated "street ids"? Small towns like this dont have street names because they are superfluous. Mail arrives, people find places.