[OSM-talk] What3words

[Stefano]

2015-11-22 13:16 GMT+01:00 Simon Poole <simon at poole.ch>:

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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?
>


Actually no, I like how they patented things like "ONEWORD".

Brb gotta retire my demo

Thanks,
Stefano


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> Am 22.11.2015 um 13:00 schrieb Stefano:
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> Hi,
> 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).
> https://lists.okfn.org/pipermail/okfn-labs/2015-May/001623.html
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> See also https://github.com/pudo/open3words/issues/1
>
> Regards,
> Stefano
>
> 2015-11-22 12:37 GMT+01:00 Simon Poole <simon at poole.ch>:
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>> It is not as if there are not numerous alternative addressing schemes
>> see for example this list (which was produced for an open system from,
>> gosh, the goog).
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>> https://github.com/google/open-location-code/blob/master/docs/comparison.adoc
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