Subject changed ;) On 03.08.2018 08:41, Maarten Deen wrote: > The extra penalty for What3words is that you also need an active > internet connection (or a huge offline addressing database) to convert > the three words to a location.
... > Is it easier and > quicker for me to first open some app to try and find my 8 letter > location or my 3 What3words, or is it easier and quicker to just read > out my gps location? I am certainly not a what3words fan (I hope this is obvious) but in the service of truth I need to say two things for them: First, they claim that their offline addressing database is actually not huge, but small enough to use on most devices. The problem is not that the database is huge, it's that the database is protected and they'll slap a takedown notice on anyone using it without their agreement, e.g. https://github.com/github/dmca/blob/master/2016/2016-07-05-what3words.md. Second, they claim that saying three natural language words on a potentially low-quality radio or mobile phone connection leaves less room for misreadings than dictating a string of numbers. They claim that the dictionary has been curated in a way as to not have similar-sounding words, a claim that, I believe, has been often ridiculed with examples but I don't have any at hand right now. Bye Frederik -- Frederik Ramm ## eMail frede...@remote.org ## N49°00'09" E008°23'33" _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
