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There's also what3words [0], which uses 3 English words. They support a few other locales/languages I believe. Their idea seems better from a human-readable pe
by nevi-me 11y ago
There's also what3words [0], which uses 3 English words. They support a few other locales/languages I believe.
Their idea seems better from a human-readable perspective, and I prefer the solution to other concoctions like what Waytag [1] once did. Although Waytag founders focused on 'our technology is patented, soon Google and all the other giants will be licensing from us' part [2] instead of improving their user experience and creating a decent API. Their patent later got invalidated with GeoCities as prior art. I tried to find the detail on Stack Exchange, I'll add reference when I find it.
[0] http://what3words.com http://what3words.com
[1] http://waytag.com http://waytag.com
[2] http://support.waytag.com/our-vision/ http://support.waytag.com/our-vision/
- nulltype 11y agoHaving the city on there is maybe more readable in many ways. The other thing that sets this apart from what3words is that what3words won't give out their word list as far as I can tell. This could be because they have taken $5 million in funding.