what3words has a proprietary implementation and has sent fairly silly legal threats: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27020810 https://news.ycombinator.com/

what3words 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.