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Doesn't what 3 words already solve this problem, and seems to have commercial momentum? http://what3words.com http://what3words.com
by 4ndrewl 9y ago
Doesn't what 3 words already solve this problem, and seems to have commercial momentum? http://what3words.com http://what3words.com
- staz 9y agoFrom previous conversations on HN, wasn't the problem that to use What3Words, you have to use their online proprietary system? and thus won't work offline and make you dependent on their service? Plus Code seems to just be encoded Gps coordinates which seems far easier to integrate.
- tehwalrus 9y agoWhat3words works offline in a free (as in beer) app. They want to monetise by charging the courier companies who save money in this precise case.
- meritt 9y agoW3W is proprietary, has commercial aims (you can purchase short-codes), cannot be used offline, is completely dependent on the provider, and a simple transposition of words will result in somewhere completely different. Simply using lat/lng or one of these deterministic systems (geohash, plus.codes, etc) is a far superior option for something to be adopted globally.
- tehwalrus 9y agoThey actually refunded everyone who bought a "one word", and are focusing on the (free to use) 3 word addresses. And it works offline too (always has). What3words is a deterministic hash of the gps coords.
- user5994461 9y agoThis thing is beyond terrible. Just tried it. It's auto picking my browser language instead of English. The choice of words is terrible, I don't know how to spell half of them, I can't imagine anyone able to write them down or understand them over the phone.