Re: [OSM-talk] Addressing systems (Was: Paper/Article about stagnation in OSM)

2018-08-03 Thread Steve Doerr
On 03/08/2018 09:22, oleksiy.muzal...@bluewin.ch wrote: I just tried to create the 3-words address for a building in Odessa, Ukraine. The system suggested "dressings.cookies.brothers". It would be close to impossible to transmit these three words over the telephone to a local taxi dispatcher.

Re: [OSM-talk] Addressing systems (Was: Paper/Article about stagnation in OSM)

2018-08-03 Thread oleksiy.muzal...@bluewin.ch
I understand what you mean and I share your view. I would like just to mention that the European civilization absorbed others' achievements massively.For example, corn ended for good famines in Europe. At the same time, it was the product of five thousand years selection effort by people of South

Re: [OSM-talk] Addressing systems (Was: Paper/Article about stagnation in OSM)

2018-08-03 Thread _ dikkeknodel
To me this is just another way of colonisation, forcing (technical) systems upon other people who have no say in them. They are communicated as a means to help people, but are mainly to make a buck in the end. Instead we at OSM should leave it up to the people themselves to choose how to

[OSM-talk] Addressing systems (Was: Paper/Article about stagnation in OSM)

2018-08-03 Thread Frederik Ramm
Subject changed ;) On 03.08.2018 08:41, Maarten Deen wrote: > The extra penalty for What3words is that you also need an active > internet connection (or a huge offline addressing database) to convert > the three words to a location. ... > Is it easier and > quicker for me to first open some