[OSM-talk] What3words

[Daniel Kastl]

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> 
> I guess there would be no objections to someone adding 
> addr:w3w:en=nice.place.here ? Or addr:w3w=en:nice.place.here ?
> 
> 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.
> 

The difference in their proprietary system (if you want to call
address systems in in countries closed and proprietary) is, that when
their API (and "algorithm") goes away, you won't find any address
anymore. It's totally unreliable to depend on a proprietary API to
locate an address, and a waste of time to add such data to OSM in my
opinion.

Regards,
Daniel




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