Plus Codes by Google VS Hoodmaps

For more on this, and why I think we shouldn't advocate for W3W, see: https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2019/03/why-bother-with-what-three-words/ for theoretical reasons and https://w3w.me.ss/ for some practical examples. https://plus.codes seems much better, but sadly it uses numbers instead of words, which are much harder for humans to remember ( https://xkcd.com/936/ ), so I don't think it will ever catch on. That's... - Source: Hacker News / 8 months ago

I wish https://plus.codes/ took off. The benefit compared to what 3 words is that you can use the closest city to give directions and cells next to each other share the bigger cell name. Source: over 1 year ago

And an additional shoutout for https://plus.codes/ from Google. Source: over 1 year ago

New to this so sorry if this is stupid. I've been trying to use https://plus.codes to try to check an address for availability at starlink. Whatever code I put in, it simply tells me afterwards "please enter an address or a plus code". That website seems to give me either a shorter or a longer plus code. Neither of them seems to make the starlink website happy. When I try putting in the address, it doesn't like... Source: about 2 years ago

Https://plus.codes/ is really helpful it allows you to select areas by plus code so you can do fine incrementing once you locate an active cell to locate it's edge. Source: over 2 years ago

That's hood maps: https://hoodmaps.com/new-york-city-neighborhood-map. Source: over 1 year ago

There is a whole crowdsourced site for this called https://hoodmaps.com. It's pretty good. Source: over 1 year ago

Hoodmaps.com is good for this kind of question. Note the areas in CDMX marked "danger", "don't ever go here, EVER" "Say goodbye to your iPhone", "why are you here run for your life"... Avoid those areas. Source: almost 2 years ago

Hoodmaps.com is great if you want to know the area you will be moving into. Source: almost 2 years ago

Ever seen hoodmaps? You should contribute! It looks like Charlottesville doesn't have a presence on here yet. Source: about 2 years ago