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Yep. I was (and to some extent still am) part of a startup that found a better alternative to W3W. Our solution is the geohash phrase, which you can find a disc
by thelittlenag 3y ago
Yep. I was (and to some extent still am) part of a startup that found a better alternative to W3W. Our solution is the geohash phrase, which you can find a discussion of here: https://www.qalocate.com/solutions/geohashphrase/ https://www.qalocate.com/solutions/geohashphrase/
The only major thing W3W has going for it is a very, very good marketing department.
- NelsonMinar 3y agoWill there be a free, open source system for resolving a geohash phrase into a location? The #1 problem with What3Words is its proprietary rent-seeking business. Your link has ambiguous answers to "open source" and "free".
- thelittlenag 3y agoThe answer is yes, with the unfortunate qualifier that, for at least what we've put together, it won't be soon. The startup has been on pause for most of the last two years due to lack of traction. I don't have the time, money, or energy to devote to moving our current work, which is very rough and very much half-baked, into a useful state for motivated folks. That said, if someone else were to pick the idea up and move it forward on their own in the OSS space, then we'd (very likely) support that.