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How is this convenient? "doors.aware.secure" gives you no indication of where it could be, especially when the neighbor is "hotel.leans.poetic" If it's not me
by awb 9y ago
How is this convenient?
"doors.aware.secure" gives you no indication of where it could be, especially when the neighbor is "hotel.leans.poetic"
If it's not meant for humans, then why not use GPS coordinates which are even more precise?
Not to mention, I'm sure there will be insensitive randomly generated strings like "muddy.ashes.pardon" https://map.what3words.com/muddy.ashes.pardon https://map.what3words.com/muddy.ashes.pardon
- buttcoinslol 9y agowhat3words is a large hash table mapping 3x3m squares of land with the key being a unique three word phrase and the value being the 3x3 grid square. That's really all it is. Oh, by the way, if the service goes down, everything grinds to a halt because there is no backup analog system (maps, etc). It's a solution searching for a problem, and existing mail and building addressing schemes are far superior to it.
- lxmorj 9y agoIt's easy for humans to memorize, though I don't know exactly what that's worth...
- buttcoinslol 9y agoWhen all you need now is '123 Fake St, 12345' to get a map of a location and directions to it on your phone, not much. You can locate '123 Fake St, 12345' without a phone, so it wins.
- xtreme 9y agoAs others have pointed out, lots of places in underdeveloped countries don't have street names and numbers.
- buttcoinslol 9y agoAs others have pointed out, and I quote, "a proprietary system from a for-profit company should not be used as the basis for addressing in any country."
- dorfsmay 9y agoSo it'd be easy for everybody to contribute their address and GPS coordinates to an open database. Eventually it'd be usable enough that most people wouldn't need to access the paid for DB.
- andlier 9y agoehh, muddy.ashes.pardon maps to US Holocaust Memorial Museum... (https://www.ushmm.org/ https://www.ushmm.org/) insensitive for sure, is that just a coincidence?
- andlier 9y agoApparently this discussion has been on here before: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11896883 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11896883
- f_allwein 9y agofrom the website, https://what3words.com/about/ https://what3words.com/about/ : > Street addresses worldwide are inaccurate, unreliable and don’t exist at all in many places. Poor addressing is expensive and frustrating, hampers economic growth and development, restricts social mobility and affects lives. > Street addresses can usually identify a building, but aren’t accurate enough to help a courier or taxi driver find the correct entrance. This results in delayed or failed deliveries, and numerous ‘where are you’ phone calls.
- slaymaker1907 9y agooven.likes.zips is much easier to communicate and memorize than 40.7484° N, 73.9857° W (location of empire state building).
- evgen 9y agoYeah, because "350 5th Ave, NYC" is just so hard to communicate...
- everdev 9y agoExactly. City it's usually obvious. With an address you need to memorize street and number, 2 things. With 3 random words, there's no hint to remind you of what it might be. With an address, at least you could say it's on Main St. if you don't remember the whole address.