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What3Words is garbage from craven rent seeking sscammers. You can design a very similar system using the S2 projection and EFF word lists to address any point o
by jasonwatkinspdx 3y ago
What3Words is garbage from craven rent seeking sscammers. You can design a very similar system using the S2 projection and EFF word lists to address any point on earth with 2m resolution using 4 words.
W3W's entire business model is to make the mapping opaque so that you have to pay them money for lookups. Even worse, it means they intentionally destroyed any hierarchical locality in support of this. That's ducking absurd.
This idea can be an RFC anyone can implement for free. Even more craven is they successfully suckered a number of emergency services on paying for W3W.