Surely its the exact opposite. Locals don't need an address, they know what you mean when you say "the yellow house behind where the pharmacy used to be". "Outsiders" are the target users for addresses and thus it should be optimized for their understanding and use cases.
Just use lat/long which are universal.
Plus Codes are open source and there are no licensing fees. They also compare different location encoding systems like Lat-Long etc.
https://github.com/google/open-location-code/wiki/Evaluation...
The Japanese Quasi-Zenith Satellite System (QZSS) is designed specifically to work around this problem, but that level of precision isn't available everywhere yet.
This is a pretty strange statement. Ad address, in my interpretation, is an identifier that can be given to anyone without local contextual knowledge to find a place of interest. You can tell me in my hometown that the cafe is opposite of the hardware store and I'll find it precisely because I know where the hardware store is. In other towns/places, as an outsider, I would need an address to be able to find something.
LatxLng Apt 23C
Also, when sorting mail looking up lat-long for every item is tedious, so we could name the address by the town/city name that it is local too.
Now lat-long is getting to be redundant ...
But regrettably that's not the case. So I'm hoping that SOMETHING will catch on eventually.
For instance, https://planner.myrouteonline.com/route-planner/1752/#, works perfectly in Hilgermissen and has no trouble finding the houses and finding the optimal route.
There is in fact not a problem to be solved, except perhaps between the ears of the people managing delivery companies.
Your age is even more local. I'd say even personal. Still all others could use objective sense of what a year is and how many of those ago you were born. That's why we need outside specification for local things. Because local doesn't mean isolated from the rest of humanity.
Who needs some proprietary system (there’s also a so-called “three word” competing system). Just use lat/long which are universal.
> People should be easily able to provide address without knowing or caring about local arrangements.
What can be more “local” than an address and why should it be subject to outside specification?
If you consider lat/long user-unfriendly then just stuff them into URIs of some sort — URLs would work — and keep this em in a sort of DNS. Then people could name their addresses whatever they want.