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Somewhat related, I always liked the concept of https://what3words.com/ https://what3words.com/
by gajus 2y ago
Somewhat related, I always liked the concept of https://what3words.com/ https://what3words.com/
- simonw 2y agoThey have some pretty bad flaws in their design relating to this topic: https://twitter.com/jonty/status/1570062564523917312 https://twitter.com/jonty/status/1570062564523917312 > the actual address should be "keen.lifted.fired" instead of "keen.listed.fired" and someone clearly misheard over the phone
- Terr_ 2y agoYeah, ideally the dictionary first would undergo rather rigorous pruning based on things like phonetic similarity or how easily a typo might move between two valid words. That scoring/clustering process makes for interesting problems in their own right, especially if one throws accents into the mix.
- TheDong 2y agowhat3words has a proprietary implementation and has sent fairly silly legal threats: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27020810 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27020810 I'll happily boycott that for-profit company which is masquerading as a public utility, but charging money and going after anyone who reverse engineers what words are what locations. See also the comments in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27058271 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27058271 This is exactly the sort of thing that shouldn't be a private company, just like Lat/Lon coordinates and street addresses are effectively public domain, any suitable replacement for lat/lon should also be public domain.
- gajus 2y agoYikes. Well, less of fan now!