[OSM-talk] What3words

[Peter Gervai]

On Sun, Nov 22, 2015 at 2:01 PM, ajt1047 at gmail.com <ajt1047 at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 22/11/2015 12:51, Colin Smale wrote:

> ...and once again, as seems to be the norm in OSM, any minority interest
> which is not supported by the oligarchy gets mercilessly shot down.

> ... except it's not _just_ the "oligarchy", is it?  No-one on this list
> seems to have a good word for the original idea.

And even many of the the lurkers don't. Central repository is bad for
longevity.


Actually I'm impressed by Google's attempt called open-location-code,
it's actually pretty
useful, completely open and doesn't require a central authority. Kind
of no-brainer including
their already provided javascript on a page, and the hierarchical
approach is really neat.

grin