<div dir="ltr"><br><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">2015-11-22 13:16 GMT+01:00 Simon Poole <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:simon@poole.ch" target="_blank">simon@poole.ch</a>></span>:<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">
  
    
  
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    While developing a similar system to w3w might be an attractive
    proposal, have you checked what the w3w patent covers given that the
    thoughts in the referenced issue would seem to result in at least a
    very similar system?</div></blockquote><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Actually no, I like how they patented things like "ONEWORD".</div><div><br></div><div>Brb gotta retire my demo</div><div><br></div><div>Thanks,</div><div>Stefano</div><div><br></div><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 bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000"><div><div><br>
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      Am 22.11.2015 um 13:00 schrieb Stefano:<br>
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      <div dir="ltr">Hi,
        <div>just for reference in May I saw a discussion on okfn-labs
          on "opening up" w3w by doing an open location code system
          (different from the Google one).</div>
        <div><a href="https://lists.okfn.org/pipermail/okfn-labs/2015-May/001623.html" target="_blank">https://lists.okfn.org/pipermail/okfn-labs/2015-May/001623.html</a><br>
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        <div>See also <a href="https://github.com/pudo/open3words/issues/1" target="_blank">https://github.com/pudo/open3words/issues/1</a></div>
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        <div>Regards,</div>
        <div>Stefano</div>
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          <div class="gmail_quote">2015-11-22 12:37 GMT+01:00 Simon
            Poole <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:simon@poole.ch" target="_blank">simon@poole.ch</a>></span>:<br>
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              not as if there are not numerous alternative addressing
              schemes<br>
              see for example this list (which was produced for an open
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              gosh, the goog).<br>
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               <a href="https://github.com/google/open-location-code/blob/master/docs/comparison.adoc" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://github.com/google/open-location-code/blob/master/docs/comparison.adoc</a><br>
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