Gregory's Server
@shi @sahqon @ocean
I hate modern GIS systems with a passion.
I live in an apt complex with 1000s of flats in it. No apt no, no delivery.
30 years back, every one knew that the street name was a bit on the long side, and one abbreviated it.
Today, the IT knows all streets by their official name. Guess what gets cut off with a surprising regularity?
Which means, no matter how fast the delivery is supposed to be, the parcel stays a day longer with "address incomplete".
@shi @sahqon @ocean Did I mention how much fun it is to try to spell out to a voice recognition system a 12-15 character long parcel ID on the phone? Because there seems literally no chance to reach a human operator before identifying yourself with your business transaction. And the parcel number alone was not enough to change the delivery address online, ...
One of the moments when one realizes, this is it, why we had to read Kafka in school, to prepare us for these existential phone calls.