On 12 July 2016 08:46:08 GMT+01:00, Steve Doerr <doerr.step...@gmail.com> wrote: >On 12/07/2016 00:23, Dave F wrote: > >> This system [...] doesn't work in the real world. > >It's apparently used in Mongolia as of this month. So the proof of the >pudding . . .
People have different criterias for what makes a postcode system 'work in the real world'. Many people in the osm/foss comunity have criterias that put w3w firmly in the 'doesn't work' category, whatever Mongolia's government may think. Ireland recently got a postcode system that is so bad that nobody in the know wants to (or can) use it. The goverment only selected it because of lobbying (to put it nicely) by the company selling the system. There were much better systems available but they didn't manage to get the politicians or people's interest. I'm not familiar with Mongolia but I'm pretty sure the same story happened there. IMHO plus codes are much better than w3w, and I guess w3w mainly thrives marketing/lobbying and because their system looks cool at first blush. Openpostcode is another good system, very similar to plus codes, which is used as the official postcode in Yemen since 2014. -- Vincent Dp _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
