Additionally it is a mind booggling case of anglocentrism and neo colonialism to put english words all over parts of the world where people have different scripts and have no idea what those words mean and how they are pronounced. how is this better then a local addressing scheme or a geocoordinate if you have to remember the latin letters of the three 'words' because you don't know their meaning?
max On 2015년 11월 22일 20:16, Frederik Ramm wrote: > Hi, > > On 11/22/2015 11:39 AM, Colin Smale wrote: >> I have heard a few times recently about what3words, a new novel >> coordinate/addressing system for the whole world. > > It's a blatant attempt at commercializing location. Under the (rather > tasteless) guise of finally being able to bring Christmas presents to > the slums of this world, they try to get everyone to use their API. In > truth they're just planning to make money through selling vanity > locations. If businesses pay millions for top level domains, goes the > thinking, then they will also pay millions to be found under > "great.shoes". By adding their API to your web site, you're pimping out > your search form for them to harvest money from it. > > Ask yourself whether the venture capitalists would really fork out tons > of money for someone who wants to bring addressing to the poor. > > Bye > Frederik > _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
