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> And worst of all, all those permutations exist and map to other locations somewhere on earth. To be honest they did give a thought about this, as apparently
by seszett 8y ago
> And worst of all, all those permutations exist and map to other locations somewhere on earth.
To be honest they did give a thought about this, as apparently close sounding words are supposed to map to places that are far apart.
It makes sense, as you should at least know if you're looking for a place in Austria or Burkina-Faso, but it also means that if you heard the words wrong then you depend on their algorithm to find a slightly different-sounding address that is the one you were looking for, instead of a more intuitive system where you could just around because if it sounded the same then it should be closer.
And since the word list is proprietary, you really entirely depend on them. Their website shows three different suggestions, the one you typed and two close sounding ones.
Tough luck if you typed "duper.listons.égalisons" and the actual address was "duper.listons.égalisation", you won't get it in the suggestions.