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cjrsheldrick

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    Comment #8615449

    Why not allow the oceans? The most common, shortest words are on land, the longest, least common words are reserved for the oceans, so the "land" 3 word combinations aren't affecte…

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    Comment #8614616

    Some users have asked to give an additional name to a square so we have allowed them to. However the 3 word system is being integrated into systems where data connections can't be …

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    Comment #8614534

    That's true when the street address works. But in a lot of the world, street addressing is poor and occasionally non-existent. Also even in countries where street addressing works …

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    Comment #8614502

    All homophones are removed (where/wear, principle/principal) so that the system always works when people communicate a 3 word location by voice.

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    Comment #8614496

    Context is being sacrificed for a very slick auto-correct system (in beta, going live v soon). When similar sounding 3 word combinations are shuffled around the world, it's pretty …

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    Comment #8614480

    It's much better to be so far away you know it's wrong at the searching stage, rather than 3 miles away as with similar postcodes, co-ordinates etc when you don't know it's wrong w…