Plus code isn't new Google talk about them before as there where developed at Google's Zürich engineering office and release in 2014 there also called open loc

Plus code isn't new Google talk about them before as there where developed at Google's Zürich engineering office and release in 2014 there also called open location code https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Location_Code https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Location_Code