[OSM-talk] What3words

[steggink at steggink.org]

Citeren Colin Smale <colin.smale at xs4all.nl>:

> Correct, but the accuracy issue is a weakness in lat/lon based
> coordinates as well. If you use your consumer GPS or phone to find your
> lat/lon, you might indeed be a long way adrift and you might get
> different values on different occasions. Imagine that you were relying
> on that to get your shopping delivered...
>

It isn't the same issue. There isn't a weakness in the lat/lon system  
itself (unless you're not using enough digits), but the weakness is in  
consumer GPS devices as you say. When using w3w in combination with  
GPS, you have to convert it to lat/lon first, so you have to deal with  
both the 3x3m inaccuracy AND the inaccuracy of consumer GPS devices.

Frank