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I see the whatfreewords web api is down, I was wondering if their re-implementation actually manages to map the same words to coordinates - I assume not, which
by blacksmith_tb 7y ago
I see the whatfreewords web api is down, I was wondering if their re-implementation actually manages to map the same words to coordinates - I assume not, which seems... problematic. Then w3w one.nice.spot would be in one place on the globe, but the same three words would map to a different place with whatfreewords. I could imagine some users being confused.
- whatfreewords 7y agoIt maps to the same spots, otherwise it would be pointless. You can use the live demo (using the JS library) at https://whatfreewords.org/demo/ https://whatfreewords.org/demo/ The API is down because our new generously-provided hosting does not support executing arbitrary code on the server. Without this provider the site would have been taken down again already, so we are grateful for what we've got.
- blacksmith_tb 7y agoThat makes sense, I see that the two implementations do agree on coordinates for the same words, which is very slick. I am trying to imagine how reverse-engineering would make that possible? I suppose it means that W3W used some known word list, and in patterns that could be pulled out of their results?