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(googler, opinions are my own) As a reminder, there is a similar free solution that tries to solve the same problem as what3words from a different angle: http

• missblit 7y ago
  From the article: > The 11-digit codes [...] are hard to memorise and a single mistyped digit would send a courier to the wrong address. The plus codes FAQ [1] mentions that they thought checksums weren't important for a couple of reasons: * Not needed for codes that are copy pasted rather than typed or written * Mistyped codes will be "obviously wrong" due to referring to an unrelated area I'm not too convinced by the rationale, as playing around on Google Maps shows a typo of one digit can at least sometimes produce another valid code not too far away. And even if typoed codes were always obviously wrong, it's not clear that a computer would recognize incorrect but valid codes as well as a human. [1] https://github.com/google/open-location-code/blob/master/FAQ.txt https://github.com/google/open-location-code/blob/master/FAQ...