Of course we can survive on fresh produce, but I'm not sure it is as universally available as you claim. Food deserts are quite common in US cities, particularly lower class and minority neighborhoods. Food fortification is still tremendously beneficial in those places.
I don't even understand what we're arguing about any more. I was saying that it is a lot of digits for someone to remember in their head, which has nothing to do with IEEE anything.
There are lots of places that don't have a street address but would be interesting to regular people, i.e. a certain location in a large park, a place on the beach, a place on a big college campus, etc.
Also, to clarify, I meant if you were in a certain location say in a large park. Like if you want to meet someone in central park somewhere and they are not familiar with the area.
Also it might be that they generate these things on demand, so the first time anyone puts the cursor a spot that has never been named they come up with a fresh one. Probably a huge fraction of the spots will never be clicked, so you could save some identifier space that way.
Give it a try. Go around and pick places and see if you find words you don't know. I'm not saying it doesn't happen, but I tried for a while and I didn't come up with any.
What does my mom do with latitude/longitude numbers I text her? It is much easier to tell her to type three words into a web site than have her copy a long string of number which she will definitely fuck up.
Now what does my mom do with that message? If I give her three words and tell her to type them into this website, it will be much more successful that telling her to do the same with a bunch of numbers she will easily fuck up.
But you have to go out to 4 decimal places to get the accuracy that they are getting and it's a lot easier to remember words than it is to remember 12-18 numbers.
It's like a generalization of street addresses. Lots of places (anywhere that's not a building) don't have street addresses, but you might want to communicate their location to someone. Now you just find it on the map and you have a succinct, easily rememberable label for that place, which others can look up on the website to find. Imagine you want to meet someone in central park somewhere but they don't know the area. You find it on the map, give them the three words, and they know right where you are talking about. You could use latitude/longitude, but that is harder to remember and communicate over a phone/sms/email.
No, you are being obtuse if you don't think they can implement this in more than one language. That is just fucking retarded to think there is some special significance to English here. The point of it is that you can succinctly communicate locations to people that you are already communicating in, presumably in a language that you share.
Places in the country don't have street addresses. Places in large parks don't have street addresses. Places on the beach don't have street addresses. Anywhere that's not a building doesn't have a street address.
Yes, that is my point exactly. Unless both people share the same app for sending and interpreting the GPS coordinates, then you can't do it. But you can always send words in SMS and have the person type those words into a website. Yes, you could also send latitude/longitude, but it is harder and doesn't have the other good uses i.e. voice over a telephone.
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You have no idea what you're talking about. None of that makes any sense, or is remotely true.
Someone sounds bitter...
Of course we can survive on fresh produce, but I'm not sure it is as universally available as you claim. Food deserts are quite common in US cities, particularly lower class and minority neighborhoods. Food fortification is still tremendously beneficial in those places.
It's a big leap from "I won't use this service" to "this service is useless". Think of it like DNS for every 3x3m square on the earth.
I don't even understand what we're arguing about any more. I was saying that it is a lot of digits for someone to remember in their head, which has nothing to do with IEEE anything.
There are lots of places that don't have a street address but would be interesting to regular people, i.e. a certain location in a large park, a place on the beach, a place on a big college campus, etc.
I said that. I said four decimal places, and there are 3 decimals for degrees in front of that.
Yes, it's like DNS for locations. How is that hard to get.
Yes of course I realize that, but they might as well be to an average person.
Also, to clarify, I meant if you were in a certain location say in a large park. Like if you want to meet someone in central park somewhere and they are not familiar with the area.
I'm not saying this is the end all, be all of location systems, just pointing out that it is kind of interesting and has some uses.
Also it might be that they generate these things on demand, so the first time anyone puts the cursor a spot that has never been named they come up with a fresh one. Probably a huge fraction of the spots will never be clicked, so you could save some identifier space that way.
Give it a try. Go around and pick places and see if you find words you don't know. I'm not saying it doesn't happen, but I tried for a while and I didn't come up with any.
No, I mean that is how many decimal places you have to go in latitude/longitude to get 3 meter accuracy.
That is true. My bad.
What does my mom do with latitude/longitude numbers I text her? It is much easier to tell her to type three words into a web site than have her copy a long string of number which she will definitely fuck up.
Now what does my mom do with that message? If I give her three words and tell her to type them into this website, it will be much more successful that telling her to do the same with a bunch of numbers she will easily fuck up.
Yes, I believe they have single word addresses for popular places.
But you have to go out to 4 decimal places to get the accuracy that they are getting and it's a lot easier to remember words than it is to remember 12-18 numbers.
It's like a generalization of street addresses. Lots of places (anywhere that's not a building) don't have street addresses, but you might want to communicate their location to someone. Now you just find it on the map and you have a succinct, easily rememberable label for that place, which others can look up on the website to find. Imagine you want to meet someone in central park somewhere but they don't know the area. You find it on the map, give them the three words, and they know right where you are talking about. You could use latitude/longitude, but that is harder to remember and communicate over a phone/sms/email.
No, you are being obtuse if you don't think they can implement this in more than one language. That is just fucking retarded to think there is some special significance to English here. The point of it is that you can succinctly communicate locations to people that you are already communicating in, presumably in a language that you share.
Places in the country don't have street addresses. Places in large parks don't have street addresses. Places on the beach don't have street addresses. Anywhere that's not a building doesn't have a street address.
Through the website obviously. That is their service.
Yes, that is my point exactly. Unless both people share the same app for sending and interpreting the GPS coordinates, then you can't do it. But you can always send words in SMS and have the person type those words into a website. Yes, you could also send latitude/longitude, but it is harder and doesn't have the other good uses i.e. voice over a telephone.
Unless it's like in the middle of a field, or in a park. Then you're out of luck.