[OSM-talk] Without an address, an Icelandic tourist drew this map of the intended location (Búðardalur) and surroundings on the envelope. The postal service delivered!

[Florian Lohoff]

On Tue, Aug 30, 2016 at 07:24:02PM +0200, Colin Smale wrote:
> I am going to say this very quietly.... what3words

I dont think what3words solves the issue of structured Addressing.

Addresses are typically strict hierarchical and offer some serious
concepts you cant build with what3words.

"Fuzzy" or "Blurry" addresses - You cant express something like
"between housenumber 5 and 10" or - "Across number 10 High Street".

Its exact in every aspect. 

Or a concept of "Naming all streets after birds in the north
of the village and all streets after mammals on the south"
every child can tell you the direction to walk and from the
Name you get a rough guess where to head to.

When you tell them where is "allgemein.ausfüllen.fahrpreis" everybody
will look a little confused.

What3Words is not made for humans, its made for Machines.

Flo
-- 
Florian Lohoff                                                 f at zz.de
             UTF-8 Test: The 🐈 ran after a 🐁, but the 🐁 ran away
-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: signature.asc
Type: application/pgp-signature
Size: 828 bytes
Desc: Digital signature
URL: <http://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/talk/attachments/20160830/0af95ee9/attachment-0001.sig>