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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.
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#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.
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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 #-