I moved to USA from India and after the interstates, this is one of the top things I am jealous of since we don’t have a sane addressing system in India.
Only if you are from such a place you will have an idea how frustrating it is to explain to a delivery person how to reach your apartment. “Bro, come around behind the mall, proceed to the dead-end and then left and then to the right after the temple”. This is not even some small town in a remote place. This is Bangalore, where I lived for years near corporate offices. Sigh.
Does something like Google Plus Code (https://maps.google.com/pluscodes/) help in this case? This sounds exactly like the use case they wanted to support (and that was supported by other systems prior to GPC), so I am curious if it, in fact, makes any difference on the ground.
Interesting, apart from the problem that like any Google feature/product it will likely be abandoned, and then shut down in a few years screwing over anyone that actually depended on it :smh:
[1] https://github.com/google/open-location-code/blob/master/doc...