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Re:Falsehoods programmers believe about addresses (2013) by ssivark on Thursday October 29, 2020 @07:30AM (#24929351)
Interesting, apart from the problem that like any Google feature/product it will likely be abandoned, and then shut down in a few years screwing over anyone that actually depended on it :smh:
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Re:Falsehoods programmers believe about addresses (2013) by Arcorann on Thursday October 29, 2020 @08:38AM (#24929831)
Plus Codes (or Open Location Codes) are simply mappings from latitude/longitude to an alphanumeric string [1], and there are open-source implementations in many languages [2], which means the effect of the project being abandoned would be limited.

[1] https://github.com/google/open-location-code/blob/master/doc...

[2] https://github.com/google/open-location-code

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