[OSM-talk] What3words

Ian Dees ian.dees at gmail.com
Mon Jul 11 15:55:11 UTC 2016


Indeed. But it was from 2015. Why is it coming up again 6 months later?

On Mon, Jul 11, 2016 at 5:51 PM, Nicolás Alvarez <nicolas.alvarez at gmail.com>
wrote:

> 2016-07-11 12:30 GMT-03:00 Ian Dees <ian.dees at gmail.com>:
> > On Mon, Jul 11, 2016 at 5:23 PM, Blake Girardot <bgirardot at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >>
> >> On a slightly more serious note:
> >>
> >> There are other solutions to the issue of lack of addresses in large
> >> parts of the world.
> >>
> >> Google has put forth a solution that tries to address most of the w3w
> >> issues. It is open source, works off line, non-propriety, usable for
> >> printed maps among other issues they try and solve, called Open
> >> Location Codes aka "Plus Codes"
> >>
> >> http://openlocationcode.com/
> >>
> >>
> >>
> https://maps.googleblog.com/2015/08/plus-codes-new-way-to-help-pinpoint.html
> >>
> >> https://plus.codes/
> >>
> >> It is still a work in progress for them but they are seriously seeking
> >> feedback from the OSM and humanitarian communities. I have no opinion
> >> on it because it is a bit beyond my full understanding at the moment,
> >> but as I said, thoughtful feedback on it would help I think.
> >
> >
> > The mailing lists have talked about what3words before, too:
> >
> > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/talk/2015-November/075051.html
>
> Your link is the first post on *this* thread.
>
> --
> Nicolás
>
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