[OSM-talk] Plus code grid service

[Rasťo Šrámek]

A plus code is not intended to have the same function as latitude and
longitude. It is intended as a replacement for "street name, house number"
address parts where those don't exist and cannot be reasonably created.  If
you write
Firstname Lastname
WF8R+H6 Praia
Cabo Verde

on an envelope and drop it off at your local post office, wherever you
live, it will be delivered. If you instead wrote 14°54'59.3"N 23°30'33.8"W,
it would not even be mailed out.
You can think of a plus code as just the relevant bit of latitude and
longitude for addressing within a locality.

On Mon, Nov 19, 2018 at 5:38 PM, Daniel Koć <daniel at koć.pl> wrote:

> W dniu 19.11.2018 o 17:20, Mateusz Konieczny pisze:
> > It is still not clear to me why new way of writing latitude and
> > longitude is supposed to be interesting.
>
>
> One of the reasons might be that it's about areas (covering some
> interesting places), not points.
>
>
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