Programmers fallacies about postcodes:
- A postcode covers a small geographic area
- A postcode is good enough to locate an end user for generating location suggestions
- A postcode will be in a single timezone
- A postcode only has a single state
- A postcode has no exclaves/enclaves
I would like you to meet 0872. Australia's largest postcode (I think), covers 3 states, has two cut outs (Warbuton and Alice Springs), and even still some mail outside of this area is routed via 0872
@xssfox we should've used WhatThreeWords from the start.
@NafiTheBear If only w3w didn't have some problems with words that are still too similar... https://cybergibbons.com/security-2/why-what3words-is-not-suitable-for-safety-critical-applications/
@wonka oh wow, I actually heard that they thought about it, but I haven't tested it. Still. Wouldn't that be vastly better than postal codes?
@NafiTheBear With postal codes, everyone knows how big an area they can describe. The possible error with w3w is obviously not known to everyone, and w3w is actively muddying the waters.