[OSM-talk] What3words

[Paul Johnson]

On Mon, Nov 23, 2015 at 11:29 PM, Jake Wasserman <jwasserman at gmail.com>
wrote:

> On Mon, Nov 23, 2015 at 11:28 PM, Max <abonnements at revolwear.com> wrote:
>
>> Additionally it is a mind booggling case of anglocentrism and neo
>> colonialism to put english words all over parts of the world where
>> people have different scripts and have no idea what those words mean and
>> how they are pronounced. how is this better then a local addressing
>> scheme or a geocoordinate if you have to remember the latin letters of
>> the three 'words' because you don't know their meaning?
>>
>>
> From their website: http://what3words.com/about/
> "We have rolled out our 3 word address system in 9 languages: English,
> French, Spanish, Portuguese, Swahili, Russian, German, Turkish & Swedish.
> We are adding to those every month and are currently working on Italian,
> Greek, Arabic and more."
>

So, it's less "what3words" and more like "what27words".  Starts making
datum issues look easy by contrast...
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