Yandex.Maps VS Plus Codes by Google

After the second stage of Russian aggression on Ukraine in 2022 the Yandex maps have removed country borders entirely. It makes for a very interesting map: https://yandex.com/maps I believe it was in response to the annexation of territories/oblasts that Russia didn't even control (lol). - Source: Hacker News / 10 months ago

Yandex maps still doesn't have any national borders. This annexation thing doesnt seem to be going very well, nobody in Russia knows where Russia is. Source: over 1 year ago

Hahaha, check out yandex maps right now. It's Russia's version of Google maps. Source: over 1 year ago

I'm not sure if your question is rhetoric, but somewhere I've read that some map providers show it depending on what country the user (website visitor) is in - so users in country A see the disputed territory as belonging to country A, users in country B see it as belonging to their country, and everyone else sees this territory as "disputed between A and B". Governments of both A and B might have opposite demands... - Source: Hacker News / almost 2 years ago

I would suggest looking for apartments on cian.ru and then looking at the panorama view on Yandex Maps (https://yandex.com/maps/) for that location to get a good feeling of what to expect. Source: about 2 years ago

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