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Integrate What3Words location #3262

Open rugk opened 8 years ago

rugk commented 8 years ago

Have a look at http://what3words.com. They provide an easy alternative to coordinates and addresses, which works worldwide.

It works offline and this is their developer site: http://developer.what3words.com/

The only thing is that the source code is not yet public domain as it seems. But at least they state this may be changed:

Our goal is for what3words to become a global standard for communicating location. At the moment, the core what3words algorithms and data are not in the public domain. In the future, we may release some or all of our source code – we will continually evaluate the business case for doing this.

@what3words

BTW If you implement it, you might also be able to get your logo on that site.

utack commented 8 years ago

Screw what3words:
https://blog.ldodds.com/2016/06/14/what-3-words-jog-on-mate/
It should not catch on imho

rugk commented 8 years ago

@utack Nice article and good arguments. I'm also not fully convinced as it is quite proprietary (which may make implementing this in Maps.me difficult too), but at least the statement I already quoted in my first post of this issue makes me a bit of hope.