[OSM-talk] What3words

[Tom Hughes]

On 24/11/15 08:00, Paul Johnson wrote:

> Even if we completely ignore the licensing issues, there is a profit
> motive behind w3w.  They gotta sell something.  And I'd be shocked if
> it's not vanity words.  So, say I start telling friends about this
> awesome sushi place at food.bear.utopia, but a competing eating
> establishment buys the naming rights and has it changed to
> sushi.sucks.ass.  Now you're not going to find your salmon sashimi at
> food.bear.utopia because that's not a valid combination anymore.

It's no secret that they do that - it's called a "OneWord".

I'll grant you I can't easily see it on their web site right now but 
they certainly were selling single word locators for a premium.

See eg http://techcrunch.com/2013/07/08/what3words/.

Tom

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