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by rvnx 1847 days ago
If it wasn't funded and publicised by Google, I think Plus codes would have disappeared already. These codes feel quite difficult to remember and less logical than the long/lat that they try to replace; additionally, the letters are very ambiguous to pronounce in English for a non-native (E and I, J and G).

It feels like it was a quick hack of base64-ish encoding of the long/lat that evolved into a product to get an internal promotion

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this was deployed in Indian slums - which is probably the largest , non-native English speaking cohort as it can get.