Open Location Code: An Open Source Standard for Addresses

Re:Open Location Code: An Open Source Standard for Addresses by yoz-y on Tuesday August 20, 2019 @09:34AM (#20746807)

In a previous discussion about the topic it was mentioned that an earthquake can move a road a few meters to a side. Tectonic shift might be less important but physical relocation could be. A road could be moved du to a large urban work in the area for example.

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Re:Open Location Code: An Open Source Standard for Addresses by Tomte on Tuesday August 20, 2019 @10:16AM (#20747257)

I know that. But why do you insist that a location code stays the same? The location has really changed.

Plus codes are not street addresses.

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Re:Open Location Code: An Open Source Standard for Addresses by rkangel on Tuesday August 20, 2019 @12:37PM (#20748927)

> Plus codes are not street addresses.

One of the main use cases for plus codes is to be a street address in places for which street addresses are challenging.

To put it another way - we almost always use co-ordinates to help us find a particular physical object (peak of mountain, end of runway, house on street). Co-ordinates that shift with tectonic movement are most useful for that.

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Re:Open Location Code: An Open Source Standard for Addresses by Tomte on Tuesday August 20, 2019 @01:19PM (#20749456)

When an earthquake has shifted a house a meter to the right, the plus code is (a) still good enough and (b) doesn't matter because there is not much of a house left to "locate".

I'd even argue that especially in those catastrophic scenarios, location (as in GPS coordinates) is still more important than addresses that depend on physical features (like a street) that may simply be gone.

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