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Official implementation inaccurately refers to a plus code as encoding a "point" #442

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fulldecent opened this issue Apr 25, 2021 · 2 comments
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Official implementation inaccurately refers to a plus code as encoding a "point" #442

fulldecent opened this issue Apr 25, 2021 · 2 comments

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fulldecent commented Apr 25, 2021

In the CPP implementation:

The codes can be easily read and remembered, and truncating codes converts
them from a point to an area, meaning that where extreme accuracy is not
required the codes can be shortened.

This is inaccurate. Plus codes never encode a point. They encode areas of various sizes.
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fulldecent commented Apr 25, 2021

Recommended tag: implementation

bocops added a commit to bocops/open-location-code that referenced this issue Apr 30, 2021
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Fixing google#442 by not calling a small area a point.

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fulldecent commented Jun 4, 2021

This is fixed in #463 by specifying:

A Plus Code represents a locus of coordinates ("area")...

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