I agree that this is a solution in search of a problem. Don't get me wrong. It's very clever and fun. But it also suffers from a lot of problems traditional solutions like street addresses and the use of landmarks don't. Those issues have been well-documented elsewhere.
The biggest issue this type of solution faces is a lack of standardization. There's this, What3Words, other people's hobbyist versions, Google has something like this built into their map product, etc. Every additional implementation is yet another nail in the coffin of the very concept.
The only way it would gain traction is if it were a government-mandated system. But every government already has one, and the benefits of adopting such a system don't outweigh the costs yet.
This is true, but only because none of the systems have critical mass. It'd only need a couple of car manufacturers to agree on a system like this for their gps and it'd take over pretty quick.
And it's rubbish for memorizing or entering quickly based on what you've heard over the phone. So much so that almost nobody I know uses it for gps in cars, they all use rather inaccurate zip codes or addresses that require a huge database on device, are fiddly to enter, are awkward to keep up to date and are very inaccurate.
Telling a location over the phone when you are in an emergency comes to mind. Easier to remember than a series of numbers as is the case latitude/longitude.
Non-rhetorical question: who has to remember it and why?
Is this primarily a work-around for the problem of it not being possible for a mobile phone handset to display the location during a voice call? If so, maybe someone should fix that problem because there might be other things that the caller might want to refer to on the screen while calling.
It's slightly hilarious, in a way. I can imagine a conversation with the inventor: How much memory does a typical phone have? And you're telling me that we should use this proprietary system for encoding coordinates so that the user can more easily memorise the coordinates? Tell me, do you use a similar system for memorising your friends' telephone numbers?
Of course in the case of emergency calls it really should not be beyond the wit of man to implement a system so that the owner of a phone can configure it to automatically send its location to the other party when an emergency call is initiated. I'm fairly privacy-conscious but I'd probably enable that one.
> tell me, do you use a similar system for memorising your friends' telephone numbers?
I have used the major system for memorizing numbers including phone numbers. It's a very similar system.
Long streams of numbers are not great for memorizability or accurate entry or human communication. Did you ever try https://file.pizza/ ?
This is also why private keys are typically described as a sequence of words from a wordlist. Used in blockchains, PGP, keybase, etc. It does solve a real problem.
