I think the long latitude is unfortunately well understand, groups nearby places together and these days with word-processing and cut and paste not that difficult to handle.
Unfortunately it doesn't have a check digit so if it's written with two digits transposed you've had it. Post offices depend on the address contain redundant information, a post code can be misread or miswritten but if it has a street address as well it stands a very good chance of being delivered. I think the answer is to assist countries without addresses to one up with a postcode town / village address that can be expanded to a house number at a later date. Difficult to remember? Write it on a scrap of paper and pin it on the wall. Hopefully we can talk the Red Cross / World bank etc into doing some of this sort of basic infrastructure work. Cheerio John On 30 Aug 2016 2:39 pm, "Colin Smale" <colin.sm...@xs4all.nl> wrote: > On 2016-08-30 20:25, Paul Johnson wrote: > > > On Tue, Aug 30, 2016 at 1:19 PM, Colin Smale <colin.sm...@xs4all.nl> > wrote: > >> We have - that's why I am whispering. But w3w is not intended for the US. >> It's for places which don't have addresses already, which apparently is a >> large part of the world. And I would be surprised if even a US delivery >> driver doesn't have a sat nav, which can easily deal with w3w (check out >> Navmii for example). > > > OK, then you seemed to miss the simple fact that, (gets out megaphone, > aims directly at Colin's head) NOBODY USES W3W BUT ALMOST EVERYONE KNOWS > LATITUDE AND LONGITUDE. > > > OK you win Paul, put away your megaphone and gather your toys up off the > ground. After all remembering two 7-digit floating point numbers is much > easier than remembering three words to the average person in these > underdeveloped areas. It must be my brain's off-day. Have you shared your > idea with USPS? Let's all use lat/lon and scrap all that silly business > with street names and zip codes. What's not to like? > > Oh, and tell all these people they are stupid as well > http://what3words.com/using-what3words/delivery-ecommerce/ > > > _______________________________________________ > talk mailing list > talk@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk > >
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