tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4307187040250193857.post5491609683708894012..comments2024-03-20T03:33:22.357-07:00Comments on Skeptophilia: Finding yourselfGordon Bonnethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06003472005971594466noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4307187040250193857.post-11696715557201971312016-06-23T04:42:39.817-07:002016-06-23T04:42:39.817-07:00I've been playing with their app a little, and...I've been playing with their app a little, and while I didn't find any mystic correspondences, I notice that when you enter three words to search for, it'll show not only the exact match, but also a couple of misspellings that match locations closest to you (or so it seems). So it could actually be a "feature" of the system that addresses that are similar in spelling are nowhere near each other -- I mean, if someone asks me to meet them at the coffeeshop at goals.fairly.sudden, and I mistype it goal.fairly.sudden, I'm going to realize they probably didn't mean that they were waiting in a cafe on a Highway 83 offramp in Garden City, KS. Together with a country and city, I think it makes a fairly decent addressing system, though the way the roads are in some places, getting to the referenced location might be tricky. It would be good for a drone delivery service.<br /><br />And, by the way, there are places even in civilized countries where the system of street addresses isn't rational at all. Trying to find a house you haven't been to before in the outskirts of Sendai, Japan, for instance, is likely to cause even the stout of heart to weep. The address numbers seem to have been assigned at random, the streets wind around and change names... I think it was a "first come, first served" kind of thing. No, house number 4050 isn't taken yet. Where are you building? Ok, right between 2113 and 308. Perfect.Tyler Torkhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11460706772136362593noreply@blogger.com