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<p>I guess there would be no objections to someone adding addr:w3w:en=nice.place.here ? Or addr:w3w=en:nice.place.here ?</p>
<p>Surely the established addressing systems are also closed and proprietary, in the sense that some organisation with a sanctioned monopoly tells YOU what your address is - you cannot just make it up yourself. Street naming, postal codes etc are definitely in this category. We have been crowdsourcing postcodes for years without problems.</p>
<p>Integration with nominatim for example, which will need to use the w3w API, is a different subject as this would need licensing.</p>
<p>On 2015-11-22 11:46, Paul Norman wrote:</p>
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<div class="pre" style="margin: 0; padding: 0; font-family: monospace"><span style="white-space: nowrap;">On 11/22/2015 2:39 AM, Colin Smale wrote:</span>
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<br /> No. Other people might talk about the numerous problems how what3words doesn't do what it claims to accomplish or flaws in the technical implementation, but there's a much simpler reason why it doesn't belong on osm.org: It's a closed proprietary system that others can't reuse.<br /><br /> _______________________________________________<br /><span style="white-space: nowrap;">talk mailing list</span><br /><span style="white-space: nowrap;"><a href="mailto:talk@openstreetmap.org">talk@openstreetmap.org</a></span><br /><span style="white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk">https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk</a></span></div>
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