Homer Watson and Ottawa Three Lane Roundabouts

[jeremyroman]

Still off-topic, but I could not resist...

The company what3words has tried to solve the addressing problem by dividing the word in to 57 trillion 3mx3m squares and assigned each one a unique 3 word address.

So essentially you can find any location on the globe and share it with less ambiguity than any other system (at least in the X and Y, it doesn't work on the Z axis (e.g. a tall residential tower)), including places where addresses are non-existent in other more traditional systems.

For example the firefighters' monument is at: gadget.trucked.consumed.

I guess it is just a really fine UTM grid using words instead of numbers.
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[url=http://www.slate.com/blogs/future_tense/2016/06/27/what3words_divided_the_world_into_57_trillion_squares.html]Slate article.

Similarly, Open Location Code is really cool. Codes can be short if you want to refer to a larger area, or if you want to refer to an area nearby; e.g., I can give the location of City Hall as "FG24+MX, Kitchener, Ontario" or as the fully specified "86MXFG24+MX". (And they work in Google Maps, but can also be mapped to GPS with a simple algorithm and no network connectivity.)