[OSM-talk] What3words

[Jóhannes Birgir Jensson]

I see many merits in What3Words solution.

I don't think it should be incorporated into OSM en-masse but a place 
adding its address:what3words=pull.donkey.cart should be fine in my 
view, just like them adding phone= and even the disappearing fax=



Þann 22.11.2015 18:08, skrifaði 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
>
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