On Wed, 29 Oct 2014 02:53:22 PM Doug Rinckes wrote: > We thought that we should provide short codes that could be used like > addresses, to give the location of homes, businesses, anything. If we made > them usable from smartphones, we can make addresses for anywhere available > to anyone with a smartphone pretty much immediately. I think its an interesting idea. A couple of questions / comments: - Its slightly more efficient than GARS (30minutes by 30 minutes is only 6 char, as opposed to 7 in GARS), and the extensibility is interesting. Against that, GARS only uses two chars which pretty much avoids the "nasty word" problem that you could still face despite all the work to avoid it. Perhaps GARS could be added to the comparison page. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_Area_Reference_System]
- Have you looked for cases where the shortened (local) version is ambiguous with a larger area? I appreciate that this is supposed to be context dependent, but machines sometimes guess wrong about context that is obvious to humans. - Do you plan to produce a list of all valid reference locations? For offline / database purposes, it would be useful to show the user a canonical list, or to be able to provide the shortened version with the "expected" number of characters (e.g. 4 or 6) stripped off the front. Brad _______________________________________________ Geowanking mailing list [email protected] http://geowanking.org/mailman/listinfo/geowanking_geowanking.org
