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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 n

by 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.