Thanks for your comments frobozz, >0: How does the street algorithm work? I will publish the algorithm hopefully next week on the website as public domain >

Thanks for your comments frobozz, >0: How does the street algorithm work? I will publish the algorithm hopefully next week on the website as public domain > 1: Not everywhere can effectively be described as a point with varying degrees of precision. Some places are long and thin. How do I tell my friend that I'll be somewhere along a certain meandering river, but not the adjacent canal? At the time you can also describe streets , or lines on space with Location Aware Street Names. >2: Dumb IDs are good, they are stable, and even if they happen to contain some kind of hint, no one is relying on the hint and can still use them. How do you account for tectonics? Dammit! an earthquake! I'll need to tell everyone my new address! You are right, floods, tornadoes, tsunamis and natural disasters can wipe out landmarks and leave addresses or conventional signaling unusable , Location Aware Names remains always unalterable. >3: Internationalisation. RERI-NUCA and GASAVI-CALILO will be difficult or impossible for some, if not most literate local residents of those places. I totally agree with you in that there is no way a single algorithm can produce pleasent result in every language, what sounds fairly good in Italian or Afrikaan might sound illegible in Japanese. But even then, might be a little easier to send a SMS saying "Meet me at NALADU-MAMOKE" than "Meet me at 35° 42' 36'' N, 139° 38' 24'' E ". If the resulting name does not work for you as name you might want to use, see it as a tool available to handle easier "35° 42' 36'' N, 139° 38' 24'' E " The idea of different versions of the algorithm for different languages is something worth of researching.