[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":811},["ShallowReactive",2],{"project-12260958":3},{"id":4,"name":5,"line":6,"line_source":7,"title":8,"url":9,"domain":10,"maker":11,"posted_at":12,"year":13,"points":14,"comments":15,"rank_in_year":16,"shown_in_year":17,"top":18,"tier":19,"category":20,"subcategory":21,"format":22,"keywords":23,"reception":28,"sentiment":29,"stance_mix":30,"scored_comments":35,"aspects":36,"strip":50,"post_text":52,"what":53,"said":92,"maker_in_thread":220,"shape":232,"grid":235,"attempts":773,"same_week":774,"maker_shows":48,"maker_hidden":803,"reader_version":804,"card":805},"12260958","Xaddress","Give 7B people an instant physical address","title","Show HN: Give 7B people an instant physical address","https:\u002F\u002Fgithub.com\u002Froberdam\u002FXaddress","github.com","roberdam",1470830133,2016,415,199,30,2264,2,"legend","languages","location encoding","library",[24,21,25,26,27],"geocode","physical address","open location code","what3words","mixed",-0.252,{"positive":31,"neutral":32,"mixed":33,"critical":34},16,43,7,39,105,{"design":37,"docs":40,"idea":43,"privacy":46,"execution":47,"performance":49},{"positive":38,"critical":39},0,12,{"positive":41,"critical":42},1,4,{"positive":44,"critical":45},11,17,{"positive":38,"critical":38},{"positive":18,"critical":48},3,{"positive":41,"critical":48},[18,41,18,41,38,38,18,18,48,48,48,38,48,51,48,18,48,18,41,41,51,48,41,41,51,51,51,38,38,41,18,41,18,48,41,41,18,18,41,41],5,null,{"problem":54,"audience":52,"pricing":52,"motivation":52,"time_to_build":52,"stack":66,"openness":89,"stage":90,"team_size":91},{"value":55,"source":56,"evidence":57},"Hard-to-communicate or missing physical addresses in many places","inferred",[58,62],{"id":59,"by":60,"text":61},"12262754","jpalomaki","I see the point especially with foreign addresses. It can be bit of a challenge to communicate addresses like \"Nándorfejérvári út 4\" or \"Kısıklı Büyük Çamlıca Cd. No:9\" over the…",{"id":63,"by":64,"text":65},"12262330","jxf","I think this is a neat way of encoding things. But this also has a lot of shortcomings that existing mailing addresses don't have; it's really only useful for identifying a…",[67,78],{"value":68,"source":69,"evidence":70},"Ruby","commenter",[71,75],{"id":72,"by":73,"text":74},"12261793","acangiano","Great idea \u002F initiative but I must ask, are you new to Ruby? I've rarely come across code that was so not idiomatic.",{"id":76,"by":11,"text":77},"12261834","Thanks, yes, I'm ashamed of my code, this is my first project in ruby , my last programming work was 15 years ago, (Foxpro for DOS) so this is my comeback to programming. I hope…",{"value":79,"source":69,"evidence":80},"Google Maps API",[81,85],{"id":82,"by":83,"text":84},"12261272","joekinley","The site doesn't work for me as the Google Map API seems to be broken, Authorization removed or something",{"id":86,"by":87,"text":88},"12261779","pingec","This is genius! Seems like HN killed it though. The demo is not working anymore, probably rate limits have been hit. Edit: seems to work on the default location but not when I…","open_source","prototype","unknown",{"praise":93,"objections":114,"requests":148,"questions":171,"alternatives":181},[94,109],{"value":95,"source":69,"evidence":96},"Visual icon hash is a clever error-check and memory aid",[97,101,105],{"id":98,"by":99,"text":100},"12263505","niftich","At first I was skeptical of 'yet another geocode', but the addition of the avatar alongside it (for error-checking and instant-recognizability purposes) makes this scheme…",{"id":102,"by":103,"text":104},"12261246","wscott","It is nicely done and unlike what3words.com (which is very similar) this version isn't commercial. The icon acting as a visual hash is a nice touch.",{"id":106,"by":107,"text":108},"12261860","goodmachine","AFRAID SEA here. To avoid confusion, might be best to exclude words that are common placenames from the word list (street, road, lake) as well as rude words. Great to see an open…",{"value":110,"source":69,"evidence":111},"Open alternative to what3words, which is commercial",[112,113],{"id":102,"by":103,"text":104},{"id":106,"by":107,"text":108},[115,127,134,141],{"value":116,"source":69,"evidence":117},"Word list contains profanity and awkward words",[118,122,126],{"id":119,"by":120,"text":121},"12261494","codev","My current location is 5308 AFRAID ANUS. Might be best to exclude ANUS from the word list.",{"id":123,"by":124,"text":125},"12263657","swehner","From the list of words at https:\u002F\u002Fgithub.com\u002Froberdam\u002FXaddress\u002Fblob\u002Fmaster\u002Fen\u002Fadj_en.csv, I take it that some locations will be labelled DESPERATE, UNSPEAKABLE, POSTDOCTORAL,…",{"id":98,"by":99,"text":100},{"value":128,"source":69,"evidence":129},"Hash-like words are hard to verify; one letter error breaks address",[130],{"id":131,"by":132,"text":133},"12262193","mabbo","Maybe I'm missing something but why does \"Pearl\" mean 8480 and \"Magical\" -6129? If that's a hash, I really dislike this, because A: humans can't do hashing in their heads, and B:…",{"value":135,"source":69,"evidence":136},"Does not encode routing, navigation or service-area information",[137],{"id":138,"by":139,"text":140},"12264470","saalweachter","My biggest problem with this sort of schema (and the similar ones other people have mentioned in this thread) is that it doesn't solve any of the difficult problems an addressing…",{"value":142,"source":69,"evidence":143},"Coordinates drift over time (tectonic motion) and lack floor-level precision",[144],{"id":145,"by":146,"text":147},"12262127","sly010","As a sidenote, Australia moves about 7cm north annually [1], so any encoding of GPS location is not flexible enough in the long term. Also only encoding lat\u002Flong makes it so you…",[149,157,164],{"value":150,"source":69,"evidence":151},"Curate or filter the word list",[152,153],{"id":123,"by":124,"text":125},{"id":154,"by":155,"text":156},"12262070","yladiz","I think this is a really nice idea, and it seems somewhat more memorizable than a what3words address because it incorporates numbers. Really cool work! The only two complaints I…",{"value":158,"source":69,"evidence":159},"Add versioning to word lists",[160],{"id":161,"by":162,"text":163},"12263102","SamBam","I don't see any versioning on this, and that seems like it is something that needs to be implemented ASAP if you actually want any of these addresses to start to be used in the…",{"value":165,"source":69,"evidence":166},"Link to existing postal addresses",[167],{"id":168,"by":169,"text":170},"12262312","parennoob","I have seen a lot of these co-ordinate based alternative address mechanisms (in fact the author gives a list -- https:\u002F\u002Fgithub.com\u002Froberdam\u002FXaddress#compare-encodings). But in my…",[172,177],{"value":173,"source":69,"evidence":174},"How does it handle apartments and floors?",[175,176],{"id":63,"by":64,"text":65},{"id":145,"by":146,"text":147},{"value":178,"source":69,"evidence":179},"Can it work without a city name?",[180],{"id":154,"by":155,"text":156},[182,192,199,206,213],{"value":27,"source":69,"evidence":183},[184,188],{"id":185,"by":186,"text":187},"12262388","diskooo","Isn't this pretty much the same concept as http:\u002F\u002Fwhat3words.com\u002F, or am I mistaken?",{"id":189,"by":190,"text":191},"12261495","Ocha","reminds me of http:\u002F\u002Fwhat3words.com\u002F",{"value":193,"source":69,"evidence":194},"Mapcode",[195],{"id":196,"by":197,"text":198},"12261677","ComodoHacker","Yet another location encoding. Why not MapCode[1]? >Designed to be used in low tech environments What are supposed uses of encoded lattitude and longitude in \"low tech…",{"value":200,"source":69,"evidence":201},"Open Location Code",[202],{"id":203,"by":204,"text":205},"12266827","karussell","I like this comparison: https:\u002F\u002Fgithub.com\u002Fgoogle\u002Fopen-location-code\u002Fblob\u002Fmaster\u002Fdocs\u002Fcomparison.adoc Which makes it also clear why open location code is really smart…",{"value":207,"source":69,"evidence":208},"Maidenhead Locator System",[209],{"id":210,"by":211,"text":212},"12263796","datenwolf","IMHO the Maidenhead Locator System [1] solves this problem very nicely. Locations are concise and can be specified with arbitrary precision. And the encoding scheme makes vocal…",{"value":214,"source":69,"evidence":215},"MGRS",[216],{"id":217,"by":218,"text":219},"12266472","slavik81","I'm surprised nobody has mentioned MGRS as a somewhat similar system. Coordinates look like so; 4QFJ 1234 5678. That means the coordinate is in the 100km grid-square named 4QFJ.…",{"comments":221,"answered":39,"key":222},26,[223,226,229],{"id":224,"text":225},"12263192","Your Xaddress will work even if we remove the word from the available list, you can try encoding or decoding by hand to understand how it works…",{"id":227,"text":228},"12264012","Yes, Xaddress creates 2 kinds of codes, the short one is inmutable and does not depend from geopolitical boundaries, you can check http:\u002F\u002Fubicate.me for the short code…",{"id":230,"text":231},"12262821","Yes!, in this case \"Nándorfejérvári út 4\" can be \"CRUEL RUN 4604 - Budapest, 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