Address: Uhlandshöhe 8, 69254 Malsch
Pluscode: 6MV5+48 Malsch
Mapcode: DEU 62.3MXB or DEU 6TSS.RTN or FRA YB0X.QYM or VJ83P.195B
what3words: rosebuds.sleep.souvenir
GPS Coordinates: 49°14'34.0"N 8°39'30.1"E or 49.242778, 8.658364
Personally I prefer the common address format. If there is no road name and house number or the site is too large: decimal GPS coordinates. A plus code is a kind of short form of GPS coordinates. Mapcode probably also but not consecutive. what3words also not consecutive but easiest to remember, to write and to tell, but unfortunately available in different languages.
So the disadvantage of what3words is the multilingual feature. An address is different depending on language. My idea is to create for every square a fantasy word which can easily be pronounced by everybody in the world. The only problem left is how to write it in different alphabets; if we don't want to make it latin only, like Pluscodes and Mapcodes are. Maybe we should just go with decimal GPS coordinates, because digits only.
A fantasy word with digits could be short enough for the whole world: lo7fo1ma9.
Pluscode: 6MV5+48 Malsch
Mapcode: DEU 62.3MXB or DEU 6TSS.RTN or FRA YB0X.QYM or VJ83P.195B
what3words: rosebuds.sleep.souvenir
GPS Coordinates: 49°14'34.0"N 8°39'30.1"E or 49.242778, 8.658364
Personally I prefer the common address format. If there is no road name and house number or the site is too large: decimal GPS coordinates. A plus code is a kind of short form of GPS coordinates. Mapcode probably also but not consecutive. what3words also not consecutive but easiest to remember, to write and to tell, but unfortunately available in different languages.
So the disadvantage of what3words is the multilingual feature. An address is different depending on language. My idea is to create for every square a fantasy word which can easily be pronounced by everybody in the world. The only problem left is how to write it in different alphabets; if we don't want to make it latin only, like Pluscodes and Mapcodes are. Maybe we should just go with decimal GPS coordinates, because digits only.
A fantasy word with digits could be short enough for the whole world: lo7fo1ma9.