I had expected to find those tackling the future of addressing to be more like the army of experts I’d interviewed—nerdy geographers, tweedy historians, and experienced bureaucrats. I hadn’t expected that addresses, too, would be revolutionized by the young, the hip, the technically advanced. And it’s not just what3words. Google has devised Plus Codes that use a string of numbers and letters to provide an address for any spot in the world. Plus Codes, which are derived from longitude and latitude coordinates, are about the length of a phone number. But the length can also be shortened when
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