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