[OSM-talk] What3words

[Paul Johnson]

On Tue, Nov 24, 2015 at 10:25 AM, Tom Taylor <tom.taylor.stds at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Isn't it simply the equivalent of TinyURL for coordinates?
>

Not quite.  TinyURL's point is to fit around limitations with some means of
electronic communication in terms of handling certain characters or
arbitrary character limits.   w3w is trying to be a mnemonic device.
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