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Open Location Code is a library to generate short codes, called "plus codes", that can be used as digital addresses where street addresses don't exist.

68 mentions on Hacker News by 55 people: 15 stories, 53 comments · first 2015-02-11 · latest 2024-08-23

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  1. https://github.com/google/open-location-code/blob/master/doc...
    comment by ilaksh · 2016-06-14 · in Mongolia is changing all its addresses to three-word phrases
  2. Yeah they list a lot of requirements on this page: https://github.com/google/open-location-code/blob/master/doc... Oddly I don't see redundancy (error detection or better yet, error correction) in there but it seems to be an important part…
    comment by nulltype · 2016-01-24 · in Open Location Code
  3. …existing systems. One advantage of open location code is to avoid characters 0 vs O or l vs 1. https://github.com/google/open-location-code/blob/master/doc...
    comment by mtmail · 2015-02-11 · in Geolocation with 3m accuracy and error correction in 10 symbols