Google has updated its search and Maps apps to support Open Location Codes (OLCs), so it’s now easier to find specific locations that don’t have clear street addresses. The company announced OLCs, also known as plus codes, back in April. Plus codes are short location identifiers derived from latitude and longitude coordinates that can be encoded or decoded offline. You can find plus codes for any location, if it doesn’t have a formal street address — say, a house on an unmarked lane in an developing country or your favorite secluded spot on a beach — over at plus.codes, and…
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