[OSM-talk] What3words

[Jóhannes Birgir Jensson]

I don't know if they are using the English version in Mongolia but I 
doubt it. You can already swap to 8 other languages on their website 
(top right option).

I did discuss Icelandic with Mapillary and they looked into available 
word sets and concluded that it was more than sufficient to make Iceland 
itself work in an Icelandic w3w implementation.

The circle-jerk is strong here about w3w, they have a human readable 
solution for GPS-coordinates (which OPL isn't sadly), they've pledged to 
offer the source code if their business goes belly-up and seem to doing 
a lot of good things. I'm slightly perplexed at the extent of vitriol 
they suffer here.

--JBJ

Þann 12.07.2016 08:11, Janko Mihelić reit:
> So they are using the english version? What good does that do to the
> local people? It would be easier to learn the GPS coordinates.
> 
> Janko
> 
> uto, 12. srp 2016. u 09:47 Steve Doerr <doerr.stephen at gmail.com>
> napisao je:
> 
>> On 12/07/2016 00:23, Dave F wrote:
>> 
>>> This system [...] doesn't work in the real world.
>> 
>> It's apparently used in Mongolia as of this month. So the proof of
>> the
>> pudding . . .
>> 
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