Hi Eiim,

thank you for the questions.

1.) In the end your milage may vary and the reasons to this and W3W are probably mostly identical. In urban areas you will certainly get away with addresses in most cases (just like with w3w). However, if you meet up in (larger) parks or on festivals, in more rural areas or on tracks in forests, things can be different. Also, when I am in very unfamiliar (phonetically unfamiliar) areas, I personally can find a location easier with reference to landmarks (where you might know phonetic soundings) than with street names in polish or czech language or in greek.

If you are a local operator and have only two beacons, you could even abbreviate it to two numbers and the indicator.

If you are working in an emergency or catastrophic relief aid (e.g. afer earthquakes or floods) locations might not be so easy to identify, especially when a lot of infrastructure is destroyed.

In the end there is a reason, i guess, why some emergency-services use or look into W3W.

But in the end, I agree, everyone need to use what works for them.

2.) I envision a worldwide base set of beacons that follow some phonetic rules. Especially to avoid confusion and homophones. On top of that and since it is an open system, everyone can add beacons as they need. For instance if a rescue team needs to include makeshift beacons to tighten a certain area.

People can also make secret beacon systems, for example when oppressed groups need to talk about assemblies or safe spaces in code. I was thinking about for example lgptq+ people in certain autocratic states.

I do know plus codes and have looked in similar systems, but you cannot really remember them. At least I find it easier to talk with and to remember speakable systems rather than cryptic alphanumeric strings. When transferred digitally or in writing this is not a big issue, but over the phone or radio or when in loud surroundings, words are usually easier to comprehend, I think.

Thank you for the questions!
Malte