Thu Jun 10, 2021 11:21 pm
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rdfb wrote:Keveng wrote:I guess that most people will understand 3 words given or received , however very few would be able to give or understand grid reference co ordinates , remember this may not only be used by professionals but the average person meeting a friend .
Surely it doesn't matter if the person understands the system or not, as long as it comes out of one app, gets communicated, and gets put into another app?
I could arrange to meet you at "6MHH+9M Frome" for example. You might have no idea what system that's using. But put it into Google Maps and it'll work, and you don't need to care how that happened.
Sure, people might struggle to communicate funny symbols. But as long as they're numbers, letters or words, it's the same, if we take accuracy out of the equation (as argued already).
Is this not just another Ec Thread in the making , the point is they all serve the same purpose the difference being that the user may feel more comfortable using one over the other.