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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 12.08.18 02:59, Martin Koppenhoefer
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On 12. Aug 2018, at 01:40, Simon Poole <<a
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<div>People seem to be looking more for unique ids for their
dwellings than something that is dependent on a relatively
fine grained location/coordinate value, of which you may have
multiple for one house. We know this works, it is still a very
common system in alpine regions in Europe.</div>
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<div>It depends a lot on the details and setting, in Venice, to
give an example with a dense urban setting, building entrances
are numbered with 4digits, unique within their “sestiere”
(literally not quarter but sixth), and it doesn’t work well for
finding a place (unless you use a map which has all the
numbers). For a quick impression:</div>
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moz-do-not-send="true">https://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=18/45.44062/12.34087</a></div>
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<div>Cheers,</div>
<div>Martin</div>
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<p>Alpine regions and Venice are probably most orderly, civilized,
and historically rich places in the world. Alpine villages look
like fairy tales. A public bus which serve them may have an
ultra-modern colored TV and air conditioning.</p>
<p>Yes, after two or three generations and functioning educational
system, maybe. But meanwhile I doubt very much that ids created on
the ground, lighted plaques, are even remotely feasible in all
regions.</p>
<p>I also think that a coding system per se is not necessarily a
good solution, unless it becomes a universal standard. For
example, as the HTML or URL for browsers. If two giants the OSM
and Google Maps would support the open source OLC (plus-codes), it
may work. And it could be good thing for further innovations in
this domain, it could create a global market of advanced
addressing solutions.</p>
<p>Best regards,</p>
<p>Oleksiy<br>
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