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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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