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First sentences of the article: "Where the streets have no name," sang rock frontman Bono on one of U2's biggest hits. "It must be hell being a postman, then,"
by Flip-per 11y ago
First sentences of the article:
"Where the streets have no name," sang rock frontman Bono on one of U2's biggest hits.
"It must be hell being a postman, then," came the sarcastic rejoinder from the music press.
But the system they come up with is still hell for a postman. He either remembers the 111111 three-word combinations for his square kilometer of delivery, or he can't work without an electronic device.
I see the problem, but hope that there are better solutions. Especially ones that are free: A non-free address system is absurd in my opinion, to put it mildly.
- mauricemir 11y agoquite this is first worlders trying to nickle and dime poor third world country's Access to clean water and basic medical services will do far more.
- Kluny 11y agoWell, if you ever try providing clean water and medical services to one of these places, you will quickly find that your first challenge is distributing resources in an efficient, non-wasteful way. And to do that, you need to take a census and find out how many people live in each area, how many are lacking service, and to what extent. And to do that, you need to have some way of counting people that both humans and computers can understand. Which brings us back to this very elegant address system.
- notahacker 11y agoThe latitude and longitude the words map to are better solutions since at least they correspond to the direction the postman is moving in a logical way. They might be long strings of digits, but so are telephone numbers