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It can't be that hard to reverse engineer the algorithm, can it?

• deleted 10y ago
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• rakoo 10y ago
  It's not hard, but it's unsurprisingly against the ToS (http://developer.what3words.com/api/licence/ http://developer.what3words.com/api/licence/) "You shall not use the API for any application that replicates or attempts to replace the essential user experience of the Service or use the API to create a Product which functions substantially the same as the API and offer it for use by third parties. You must not pre-fetch, cache, index, copy, re-utilise, extract or store any what3words Data"
  • EdHominem 10y ago
    Anyone in Somalia want to scrape the DB?
  • mort96 10y ago
    That only mentions using their API, not reverse engineering the algorithm.
    • rakoo 10y ago
      ... which is patented (see the other thread), so you're opening a whole another can of worms that frankly doesn't sound much better.