They're private, proprietary, and online (it can decode regular three word combos offline, but the one word special locations need web access). Switching the or

They're private, proprietary, and online (it can decode regular three word combos offline, but the one word special locations need web access). Switching the order of words results in totally different locations. Google gave the example of "banana rabbit monkey" being in Argentina, "banana monkey rabbit" in Russia [0]. And while it's localized to more languages than just English, the friction when exchanging location data across language barriers seems problematic. For example, giving an English speaker something like "пропан.зачет.некий." in an image, spoken, or written on paper would be totally opaque and hard to even enter with a US keyboard, let alone commit to memory. [0] https://github.com/google/open-location-code/wiki/Evaluation-of-Location-Encoding-Systems#web-based-services https://github.com/google/open-location-code/wiki/Evaluation...