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Its time someone starts an initiative to build a database of these locations outside of what3words. Once a location (3 words) is added, translated into a lat lo
by Gys 9y ago
Its time someone starts an initiative to build a database of these locations outside of what3words. Once a location (3 words) is added, translated into a lat lon, it just a matter of looking it up.
- tyingq 9y agoOnly 57 trillion 3x3 meter squares to resolve...
- Gys 9y agoYes, its good to have a closer look at the numbers involved :-) I found the habitual part of Earth to be 24,642,757 square miles [0]. A square mile = 2589988.11 square meter [Google]. So that comes close to 7.1 trillion locations. It results in 7000 Gb for each byte stored. This makes me wonder if there is some kind of algorithm is involved. The location names seem randomly but might not be. Maybe its only random for the superficial observer. Which could mean with a sufficient big enough sample the algorithm can be found. Maybe even a relative small dataset with locations close to each other could work already. [0] = http://www.zo.utexas.edu/courses/THOC/land.html http://www.zo.utexas.edu/courses/THOC/land.html
- tyingq 9y agoYes, it's probably just some hashing function mapped to words. But they do map the entire earth, including oceans.