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by sodomak 2602 days ago
Those new locating systems are solving problems which most of the people don't have. They make it even worse. We have street addresses in the most of the cities. In case someone call me if I can come to e.g. "Delnicka 43, Prague, Czech Republic" I know immediately where it is and I can say I can be there in 20 minutes. In case she tell me "mission back envy" I must connect to the Internet and check where exactly is it. So I must have some device and connection. And in emergency situations every minute counts. For places where street address system missing there is geographic coordinate system such as GPS which is widely used and acceptable by (if not all) the most of emergency services. And it's not GPS-dependent only, such coordinates you can find out in many ways (e.g. paper map, position of the Space objects etc.).
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dmurray 2602 days ago
The last time I was in the Czech Republic (not Prague) I was staying on a long street where the street numbers seemed completely arbitrary. I passed 954, 37, 238, 952, 950, 77a,... all on my way to find the inn at number 120. Google maps directed me to a location 600m away, near number 124. Is that common in Czechia?
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sodomak 2602 days ago
Usually here are two numbers for each address (there are even more specialized but it's not common): landmark - blue background and descriptive - red background (see [1]). "Blue" ones are better for orientation, they are in sequences, counted from 1, which start on the end of the street which is closer to some remarkable point in particular city (e.g. river at Prague). On one side of the street are odd numbers and on the other side are even numbers. Red ones are more "administrative" so they are not suitable for orientation. But at some smaller towns/villages or some parts of the cities are the only ones.

[1] https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ozna%C4%8Dov%C3%A1n%C3%AD_dom%...

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icebraining 2602 days ago
> In case she tell me "mission back envy" I must connect to the Internet and check where exactly is it. So I must have some device and connection

The app works offline, so assume you already have it installed, you don't need a connection.

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