<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><br><div dir="ltr"><br><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote"><span class="">On 22 November 2015 at 11:07, Colin Smale wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex"><div style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif">
<p> <span style="font-size:10pt">I guess there would be no objections to someone adding addr:w3w:en=nice.place.here ? Or addr:w3w=en:nice.place.here ?</span></p></div></blockquote><div><br></div></span><div>Ok, so turning it around, what would be the benefit of this? Why bother? What purpose does it serve? </div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>The only purpose I see, it then serves as an independent database of w3w's. Persuming the database is comprehensive enough could perform a lookup via the OSM database to find the location of a given set of words. </div><div><br></div><div>But as then it effectively makes the proprietary 'app' redundant, what3words themselves might then take exception to it anyway. And/or might infringe database right. </div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>As I see it what3words is not really 'andress' system. Its a coordinate system. Its a way of encoding a location in a series of words. OSM generally uses decimal Lat/Long as its encoding. </div><div><br></div><div>OSM doesnt store every known coordinate in the system. Like <span style="color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:22.4px">addr:mgrs=4QFJ.1234.6789 or British National Grid. Or Indian Grid. Or UTM Coordinates. etc</span></div><div><span style="color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:22.4px"><br></span></div><div><span style="color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:22.4px">There are lots of ways of encoding coordinates. Each with (generally) a well known conversion from WGS84 lat/long (complicated by the fact there may be a datum transformation needed) </span></div><div><span style="color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:22.4px"><br></span></div><div>If end user wants to use a given system, then can use that conversion. They dont need to exist in the database. </div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div></div></div></div>
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