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Per Ralph Mowery:
In article ,
says...


For years here my postal address was RR2 box 109. They finally
standardized it to the normal grid address.


Same here in North Carolina. For years mine was Rt. 3 box 242EE. This
was on a country road. The road had a name and when the county went to
the 911 phone system every one had to have a street address. Most
started at the start of the road and the numbers went up about every
tenth of a mile. The address was then changed to 2345 Saw Road . Being
about 2.3 miles from where the road started.


Last year I stumbled on a global coordinates system called "What3Words".

Basically, somebody has figured out how to identify every 3-meter square
on earth by assigning it 3 English-Language(?) words.

My front door seems to be roughly at purple.snippets.whispering.

My side/rec-room door looks to be close to tulips.countries.amused.

The entrance to my driveway seems to be greyhound.stems.spectacular.

https://map.what3words.com/enhances.lecturers.pinpoints

Seems like, logically, there has to be some way to integrate it with
Google Earth, but I have not been able to find it yet.

Maybe somebody else has ?


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Pete Cresswell