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Xaddress - Give 7 billion people an instant physical address

12 mentions on Hacker News by 6 people: 1 story, 11 comments · first 2016-08-10 · latest 2019-08-20

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  1. …Article about it: https://medium.com/hackernoon/an-algorithm-that-can-give-an-... Github: https://github.com/roberdam/Xaddress (Disclosure: im the creator of Xaddress.)
    comment by roberdam · 2019-08-20 · in Open Location Code: An Open Source Standard for Addresses
  2. Indeed, xaddress lists alternatives on its readme (including what3words): https://github.com/roberdam/Xaddress/blob/master/README.md#a...
    comment by blaze33 · 2016-08-11 · in 3-word code is address of 57M 3-square-meter patches on earth's surface
  3. https://github.com/roberdam/Xaddress/pull/7/files
    comment by pella · 2016-08-10 · in Show HN: Give 7B people an instant physical address
  4. From the list of words at https://github.com/roberdam/Xaddress/blob/master/en/adj_en.c... , I take it that some locations will be labelled DESPERATE, UNSPEAKABLE, POSTDOCTORAL, OBSTETRICAL, GENEALOGICAL, ASSASSINATING,CORRUPTED,…
    comment by swehner · 2016-08-10 · in Show HN: Give 7B people an instant physical address
  5. https://github.com/roberdam/Xaddress/tree/master/by_hand
    comment by rattray · 2016-08-10 · in Show HN: Give 7B people an instant physical address
  6. good point... resembles a normal address compared with the alternatives at least. https://github.com/roberdam/Xaddress#compare-encodings
    comment by roberdam · 2016-08-10 · in Show HN: Give 7B people an instant physical address
  7. …word from the available list, you can try encoding or decoding by hand to understand how it works https://github.com/roberdam/Xaddress/tree/master/by_hand
    comment by roberdam · 2016-08-10 · in Show HN: Give 7B people an instant physical address
  8. …a lot of these co-ordinate based alternative address mechanisms (in fact the author gives a list -- https://github.com/roberdam/Xaddress#compare-encodings ). But in my opinion, one thing they all ignore or get wrong is establishing some…
    comment by parennoob · 2016-08-10 · in Show HN: Give 7B people an instant physical address
  9. …Api, I will check that, in the meanwhile you can try the CLI if you know ruby or try it by hand https://github.com/roberdam/Xaddress/tree/master/by_hand
    comment by roberdam · 2016-08-10 · in Show HN: Give 7B people an instant physical address
  10. …to make it more readable, in the meanwhile you can check the logic behind the problem here: https://github.com/roberdam/Xaddress/tree/master/by_hand
    comment by roberdam · 2016-08-10 · in Show HN: Give 7B people an instant physical address
  11. …encode/decode the Xaddress even by hand so it can be used in low tech environments, the guide is https://github.com/roberdam/Xaddress/tree/master/by_hand
    comment by roberdam · 2016-08-10 · in Show HN: Give 7B people an instant physical address
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