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hinting | 3 years ago

glad to hear it!

searching for lat/lng, route duration, and better search are in the works

what's the deal with plus codes? i've heard about them a couple times but don't have a good sense of where/how they are used

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lifthrasiir|3 years ago

> don't have a good sense of where/how they are used

This is arguably a main problem with geocodes, however they are well designed or not (I believe plus codes are actually pretty well designed). It is obvious that they can't replace street addresses---unless they don't already exist, in which (uncommon) cases geocodes can actually be a solution---so they have to solve some different problems than street addresses, but those problems are too niche. If they look like solutions looking for problems, that's because they mostly are.

anticristi|3 years ago

Plus codes are pretty much like GPS coordinates, but made by Google: https://maps.google.com/pluscodes/

For some reason Google Maps throws plus codes at you, but requires you to dig deeper to find GPS coordinates.