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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 intriguing, and in my opinion, far better than any other geocoding.

It's essentially a combination of an Identicon [1] (of sorts, but with actual clip-art) and hash wordlist, but transmitted together as a unit. This is a very good idea and exploits a lot better how humans actually memorize and recognize things.

It needs a better wordlist though. Better is subjective, but the current list is very anglocentric, not very distinctive, and laced with profanity, making it awkward for interactions between strangers.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Identicon




Thanks niftich, you can try the spanish version as well http://test.xaddress.org/try?lng=es and more languages can be included.


I'm not sure if having a distinct wordlist for every language is helpful though, as then you can't easily tell that two addresses are the same.

Arguably, the desirable features of a geocode are:

[a] more memorizable/recognizable than coordinates

[b] you can easily tell whether two addresses are the same

[c] error-resistant, or at least error-detecting (if you can't correct the error, at least be able to tell there is an error so you know the whole thing is corrupt)


It can be https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12262754 in this case "Nándorfejérvári út 4" can be shared as "CRUEL RUN 4604 - Budapest, Hungary




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