Google launches "plus codes": open geocodes for locations that don't have street addresses

I don’t like that there is no way to distinguish the four-character code for a wide area, like 76X6 for Houston, TX, from to code for a small area, like the same 76X6 in 76X6. Perhaps the convention should be that the latter should always be used with the plus behind: 76X6: wide area, 76X6+: small area., or just using one zero to denote the wide area, e.e. 76X60 for Houston. I hate having to use 76X60000+, that is just ugly. Another option would be to use a dash: 76X6- for the wide area, -7686 for the smaller one. Whole address of the trunk of some tree: 76X6-76X6+87F.

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