[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 20:25, Paul Johnson wrote:

> 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.

OK you win Paul, put away your megaphone and gather your toys up off the
ground. After all remembering two 7-digit floating point numbers is much
easier than remembering three words to the average person in these
underdeveloped areas. It must be my brain's off-day. Have you shared
your idea with USPS? Let's all use lat/lon and scrap all that silly
business with street names and zip codes. What's not to like? 

Oh, and tell all these people they are stupid as well 
http://what3words.com/using-what3words/delivery-ecommerce/
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