<story><title>Open Location Code</title><url>https://github.com/google/open-location-code</url></story><parent_chain><item><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></item></parent_chain><comment><author>chronial</author><text>I find them a lot more human-friendly, but I guess that&amp;#x27;s subjective. The example from the wiki page you linked:&lt;p&gt;MGRS: 4QFJ12345678&lt;p&gt;Plus Code: 835M+Q7 Honolulu</text></comment>
<story><title>Open Location Code</title><url>https://github.com/google/open-location-code</url></story><parent_chain><item><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></item></parent_chain><comment><author>phicoh</author><text>In my opinion, a big disavantage of MGRS is that it is based on UTM. These days nobody uses UTM and UTM is hard to grasp if all you are used to is lat&amp;#x2F;lon coordinates.&lt;p&gt;So the clear advantage of Plus Codes over MGRS is that it is based on lat&amp;#x2F;lon</text></comment>