To increase the amount of low-quality location codes and to profit from the openmania, Google has launched an Open Location Code. Also this one has the same fundamental errors: - no local reference - squares - not helpful for navigation Human beings need angles. A natural location code has to be monopolar and , if possible, metrical. What costs little is worth less. What costs nothing looks like Open Location Code. For those who have discovered the benefit of r100 www.volksnav.de/r100: there is another OpenStandard called "Center Pointer" which isn't a domain of OSGeo but boosts the monopolar orientation. Actual codes help to find targets on maps. Natural codes help to find targets on maps AND on reality. So the following question arises "how can I easily know the direction to "downtown" within reality?". Very simple: with Center Pointer on imagination, signage and/or on devices. All my apps for the blind have TWO compasses, the second one "points" to downtown with text and/or sound, that means, with no graphic. Just google "blind in the city". If you'd like to buy a navigation device which makes you smarter, ask for one with Center Pointer. Henrique
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