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Jeez, What3Words is such a scummy company.
by breakingcups 7y ago
Jeez, What3Words is such a scummy company.
- jfengel 7y agoI'm really sorry to hear that, though it was kind of obvious given the way they were trying to monetize it. If they had open-sourced it and tried to make some money off of being associated with it, the idea could perhaps have taken off. It's a reasonably clever and catchy idea, but not nearly valuable enough to make real money off of. It's exactly the kind of thing Google throws out for free to see if it catches on.
- juliansimioni 7y agoI'm not sure if you're referring to it, but Google actually DID throw out something very similar for free: Plus Codes (https://plus.codes/ https://plus.codes/) There are still problems with the idea of large tech companies deciding on an addressing system for the whole world (the entire concept of tech colonialism, for example), but Plus Codes are an undeniably better implementation and also freely usable.