[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!

[Colin Smale]

On 2016-08-30 20:10, Paul Johnson wrote:

> 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.

We have - that's why I am whispering. But w3w is not intended for the
US. It's for places which don't have addresses already, which apparently
is a large part of the world. And I would be surprised if even a US
delivery driver doesn't have a sat nav, which can easily deal with w3w
(check out Navmii for example).
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