Hmm. author.alien.error.
Or appeal.appear.ledge.
Nigeria has become the seventh country to adopt what3words for mail deliveries
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Re: Nigeria has become the seventh country to adopt what3words for mail deliveries
#22Is it correct to assume the implementation isn't open and only what3words can resolve 3words to location and vice versa? What happens if they close down, would my mailing address no longer be resolvable? What happens then? If you'd like to visit my office its at atomic.pipes.rods.
Can using a block chain a good solution for it?
Of course! Blockchain is the solution for everything! /s
Re: Nigeria has become the seventh country to adopt what3words for mail deliveries
#23I'm really glad that these folks are succeeding, they've been at it a really long time. They contacted us when I was on a non-profit board that ran an event a few years ago, and it was obvious that it was a great idea that we had no way of implementing. Now that everyone has a phone with them all the time, they're past that barrier. I hope that they get great success.
This is a terrible idea, and it makes me sad that it is having any success at all, limited though it may be.
Yep, agreed. I might think a little better of it if it were entirely open (or anything other than some weird idea someone had for a way to make a few dollars) but I still have trouble trying to come up with reasons why this might be a good idea.
Re: Nigeria has become the seventh country to adopt what3words for mail deliveries
#24How is this convenient? "doors.aware.secure" gives you no indication of where it could be, especially when the neighbor is "hotel.leans.poetic" If it's not meant for humans, then why not use GPS coordinates which are even more precise? Not to mention, I'm sure there will be insensitive randomly generated strings like "muddy.ashes.pardon" https://map.what3words.com/muddy.ashes.pardon
what3words is a large hash table mapping 3x3m squares of land with the key being a unique three word phrase and the value being the 3x3 grid square. That's really all it is. Oh, by the way, if the service goes down, everything grinds to a halt because there is no backup analog system (maps, etc).
It's a solution searching for a problem, and existing mail and building addressing schemes are far superior to it.
Re: Nigeria has become the seventh country to adopt what3words for mail deliveries
#25How is this convenient? "doors.aware.secure" gives you no indication of where it could be, especially when the neighbor is "hotel.leans.poetic" If it's not meant for humans, then why not use GPS coordinates which are even more precise? Not to mention, I'm sure there will be insensitive randomly generated strings like "muddy.ashes.pardon" https://map.what3words.com/muddy.ashes.pardon
what3words is a large hash table mapping 3x3m squares of land with the key being a unique three word phrase and the value being the 3x3 grid square. That's really all it is. Oh, by the way, if the service goes down, everything grinds to a halt because there is no backup analog system (maps, etc). It's a solution searching for a problem, and existing mail and building addressing schemes are far superior to it.
It's easy for humans to memorize, though I don't know exactly what that's worth...
Re: Nigeria has become the seventh country to adopt what3words for mail deliveries
#26Earlier quoted context omitted.
what3words is a large hash table mapping 3x3m squares of land with the key being a unique three word phrase and the value being the 3x3 grid square. That's really all it is. Oh, by the way, if the service goes down, everything grinds to a halt because there is no backup analog system (maps, etc). It's a solution searching for a problem, and existing mail and building addressing schemes are far superior to it.
It's easy for humans to memorize, though I don't know exactly what that's worth...
When all you need now is '123 Fake St, 12345' to get a map of a location and directions to it on your phone, not much. You can locate '123 Fake St, 12345' without a phone, so it wins.
Re: Nigeria has become the seventh country to adopt what3words for mail deliveries
#27I’ve never thought about this, but what3words could be hugely helpful for me. My house is essentially located between two streets, and the street name in the address isn’t the actual street where my mailbox is or where you’d enter the gate, so loosing packages is common and it’s hard to explain to friends how to find me
It seems like what3words is precisely as helpful as standard coordinates, with the exception that coordinates don't depend on a proprietary company.
Re: Nigeria has become the seventh country to adopt what3words for mail deliveries
#28Only maps 2d space, so I'm not sure how they deal with apartment buildings and high rise offices.
Because anyone can pick whatever 3m square portion of the building they want to, it seems it would make mail sorting harder...a bundle for one specific building.
Re: Nigeria has become the seventh country to adopt what3words for mail deliveries
#29How is this convenient? "doors.aware.secure" gives you no indication of where it could be, especially when the neighbor is "hotel.leans.poetic" If it's not meant for humans, then why not use GPS coordinates which are even more precise? Not to mention, I'm sure there will be insensitive randomly generated strings like "muddy.ashes.pardon" https://map.what3words.com/muddy.ashes.pardon
ehh, muddy.ashes.pardon maps to US Holocaust Memorial Museum... (https://www.ushmm.org/) insensitive for sure, is that just a coincidence?
Re: Nigeria has become the seventh country to adopt what3words for mail deliveries
#30How is this convenient? "doors.aware.secure" gives you no indication of where it could be, especially when the neighbor is "hotel.leans.poetic" If it's not meant for humans, then why not use GPS coordinates which are even more precise? Not to mention, I'm sure there will be insensitive randomly generated strings like "muddy.ashes.pardon" https://map.what3words.com/muddy.ashes.pardon
ehh, muddy.ashes.pardon maps to US Holocaust Memorial Museum... ( https://www.ushmm.org/ ) insensitive for sure, is that just a coincidence?
Apparently this discussion has been on here before: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11896883