On 22/11/15 14:32, Colin Smale wrote: > By the way, just to be absolutely clear, I am not thinking of w3w as a > coordinate system in OSM, but as an addressing attribute similar to postcodes.
On one hand, one plugs in the three word location to their app and get a coordinate which takes you approximately to where you want to be. One needs the map to find the location in the first place, so if nothing is mapped one needs a precise coordinate ... so one logs the coordinate as well? I get the idea of 'what3words' but not while it has a page for pricing! It is something that should be a free world standard and there is nothing stopping the likes of HOT providing an alternative? But when one adds proper support for 6500+ languages building something inherently based on English is perhaps not the best starting point? All the uses I am seeing for it ALSO have the coordinates so it seems somewhat contrived trying to make it commercial in the first place? The second you NEED an app to convert from one 'system' to another is there really any need to have some human readable name? Can I go to amuses.sizing.stream without an app, when I can go to uk.worcs.broadway.xxx by following signs? -- Lester Caine - G8HFL ----------------------------- Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://lsces.co.uk EnquirySolve - http://enquirysolve.com/ Model Engineers Digital Workshop - http://medw.co.uk Rainbow Digital Media - http://rainbowdigitalmedia.co.uk _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk