[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!

[Paul Johnson]

On Tue, Aug 30, 2016 at 1:05 PM, Colin Smale <colin.smale at xs4all.nl> wrote:

> w3w solves the problem of you not having a (compact) answer to "what´s
> your address?" if you want to have something delivered. The fact that you
> only have to remember three words is for humans. But indeed the delivery
> person needs a computer.
>
I swear to god we've been over this... Not that it really helps when even
in the US, your average delivery driver's not going to make heads or tails
of purple,monkey,dishwasher in the first place, much less be able to sort
it out because their truck doesn't have a computer.
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