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Re:Google Maps has found a better way to navigate India’s ch... by kylehotchkiss on Saturday March 17, 2018 @02:56PM (#16608443)
How much shorter could this system be with Emojis? Can they contain enough info to limit it to 3-4 emojis? That would be easier to remember.

Emoji adoption for any smartphone issue wouldn't be an issue.

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Re:Google Maps has found a better way to navigate India’s ch... by RustySpottedCat on Saturday March 17, 2018 @03:15PM (#16608530)
Each symbol of the 11 characters in the plus code is in base 20. There are about 2500 emojis, meaning that you can encode 2 symbols from the plus code with one emoji (20*20=400, if you try to encode 3 symbols, it becomes 8000, which is way more than the current emoji count). So that would become 5 emojis, instead of 11 characters, which in my opinion would look quite nicer.
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Re:Google Maps has found a better way to navigate India’s ch... by superlopuh on Saturday March 17, 2018 @03:41PM (#16608679)
Given the data Google has, I'm sure they could come up with an efficient encoding scheme that would use far fewer emoji on average by prioritising popular coordinates.
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Re:Google Maps has found a better way to navigate India’s ch... by arbie on Saturday March 17, 2018 @04:54PM (#16609018)
Most people do not know the exact transliterations for many emoji, so aural transmission becomes difficult.
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