I am not sure there ever was an era of *globally* valid taxonomies. Locally, yes, they would be very useful. For example, would work in the US. But, I am in Northern India right now, and jeebus... would never work given the chaos here. Here is a real addressE1/F,<-- house number "Y" Block<-- because the building looks like two Ys from the air [1] River Bank Colony, Near Letter Box<-- seriously, am not making it up City, State, Postcode, etc.
You don't have to look to India to find this. The town of Port Clyde, Maine doesn't have house numbers - or didn't when I rented a house there some years ago. I was staying for a month and wanted to ship a "real" computer, and was told to tell FedEx "The white house across and down from the Post Office"
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