Latitude and longitude coordinates can specify any location, but they’re long and cumbersome
I'm not sure I understand how this is easier to use than lat/long. WIth open location, how can you easily tell if one location is North or South of another location? Is it useful mainly as a wrapper for lat/long that needs to be decoded before use?
I've thought about this too many times and I'm surprised the approach taken here is the most naive one. Replacement for addresses is long due but this is not it. People don't use addresses because they are short but because they are readable and memorizable. I can't even expect someone to remember their own address as "CWC8+R9" let alone their friends. My idea was to assign fun names and possibly relevant to near by geography, weather patterns and history to every 6ftX6ft square in the world. In essence you machine generate the address as if you would have asked human standing there on that spot based on what they would see/feel there. If someone would want to steal this area, let me know by email :).
what3words [0] seems to take a much better approach when it comes to memorable addresses. Rather than requiring you to remember a short series of random characters, what3words specifies three dictionary words (which can be customised for a nominal fee).
I'm not sure I understand how this is easier to use than lat/long. WIth open location, how can you easily tell if one location is North or South of another location? Is it useful mainly as a wrapper for lat/long that needs to be decoded before use?