[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
baloo at ursamundi.org
Tue Aug 30 18:25:16 UTC 2016
On Tue, Aug 30, 2016 at 1:19 PM, Colin Smale <colin.smale at xs4all.nl> wrote:
> 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).
OK, then you seemed to miss the simple fact that, (gets out megaphone, aims
directly at Colin's head) NOBODY USES W3W BUT ALMOST EVERYONE KNOWS
LATITUDE AND LONGITUDE.
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