Although I could memorize my own address, I’d have a hard time memorizing my friends’ addresses. Yes, nobody knows each other’s phone numbers anymore, but those were a very temporary relic from a very short span of time (the telephone era). Humans have always known each other’s addresses, and have always spent a lot of time telling each other their locations in the form of a spoken address.
On a more technical note, I am guessing this works super-well for auto-completion, but didn’t see any example of that in the README...
All of the various geonaming systems seem very Esperanto at the moment. I think we (as in all of us, the global community) could build upon Google’s effort to come up with a much more human-friendly system to provide easy global addressing. Yes, the address format system is way too localized and breaks down at both scale and small distances; whatever that code was at the beginning of my post (I’ve already forgotten it, and I’m too lazy to re-paste it) is just not nearly as easy to remember as “100 Ocean Drive” or whatever. I also have no clue how I might represent the building next door.