<story><title>Open Location Code</title><url>https://github.com/google/open-location-code</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>nabla9</author><text>Reinventing the wheel without any clear advantage.&lt;p&gt;Plus codes don&amp;#x27;t seem to have  any advantage over widely used MGRS (Military Grid Reference System). &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Military_Grid_Reference_System&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Military_Grid_Reference_System&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>
<story><title>Open Location Code</title><url>https://github.com/google/open-location-code</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>paulvs</author><text>A shoutout to Rober Dam who built Xaddress, &amp;quot;Give 7 billion people an instant physical address&amp;quot;: &lt;a href=&quot;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;xaddress.org&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;xaddress.org&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>