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How many times is this gonna be posted? It’s basically spam at this point. Don’t use proprietary solutions to already-freely-solved problems
by why-oh-why 7y ago
How many times is this gonna be posted? It’s basically spam at this point. Don’t use proprietary solutions to already-freely-solved problems
- mosselman 7y agoWhat free solution is there that does this?
- Piskvorrr 7y agoOh, this is free-as-in-beer all right (at the time of writing). Free-as-in-speech would be, e.g., https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Location_Code https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Location_Code Or even the venerable Maidenhead Locator, even though it's not well specified for high location precision.
- mosselman 7y agoThanks, Open Location Code looks like a great solution. https://plus.codes/6PJ4CWRW+H3 https://plus.codes/6PJ4CWRW+H3 for anyone who wants to play around with it. Although I must say that '6PJ4CWRW+H3' is still harder to communicate than horse.cow.sheep for example. That is the clever thing about what3words, the design of the addresses. What I like about Open Location Code is that adjacent squares have a similar name.
- Piskvorrr 7y agoWell, I like how the code can be shorter when using a location (I see "CWRW+H3 Segamat District, Johor, Malaysia") or unambiguous and terse when using the full code ("6PJ4CWRW+H3").
- londons_explore 7y agoThey have VC funding and a big PR team... They're probably going to win by paying big companies like Facebook to promote what3words usage with the public.