#what3words — Public Fediverse posts

TIL why Google has not thrown in any support for "What 3 Words"... they have their own competing system "Plus Codes"

This turns out to be something I've looked into because I independently came up with a similar idea around 2007. Mine had five words, more fidelity, support for multiple dictionaries or language, z-axis positioning, and checksum words.

https://blog.google/around-the-globe/google-asia/how-plus-codes-helped-create-new-home-addresses-in-india/

#what3words #pluscodes #geospatialpositioning

#What3Words is a brilliant addressing system, but its key disadvantage is you need a company's permission to use it, which they only grant if you either don't use it very much (maybe?) or you pay them. #Pluscodes, on the other hand, don't have that problem, and one can figure out that 8DC9+A2 is right next to 8DC9+A3.

What3Words is unsafe: Various technical problems with the stupid proprietary location algorithm
https://cybergibbons.com/security-2/why-what3words-is-not-suitable-for-safety-critical-applications/
#what3words #addressing #security #safety #maps #-