What3Words: a giant grid of the world made up of 57 trillion squares of 3m x 3m
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Re: What3Words: a giant grid of the world made up of 57 trillion squares of 3m x 3m
#2There's a lot to like about w3w, but note that the word->location mapping isn't open data, so think carefully before becoming too reliant on it.
Re: What3Words: a giant grid of the world made up of 57 trillion squares of 3m x 3m
#3Funny, they have a perfectly translated Dutch version they serve to me, it looks like a lot of effort and time has been put into this project.
Re: What3Words: a giant grid of the world made up of 57 trillion squares of 3m x 3m
#4Why even allow similar sounding words? Lamp and lamps?
I thought the whole point was to avoid ambiguity.
I wonder where there corpus of words comes from..?
Re: What3Words: a giant grid of the world made up of 57 trillion squares of 3m x 3m
#5Why even allow similar sounding words? Lamp and lamps? I thought the whole point was to avoid ambiguity. I wonder where there corpus of words comes from..?
Yeah, and you're one letter away from "oops, accidentally shipped my package to Australia"
Re: What3Words: a giant grid of the world made up of 57 trillion squares of 3m x 3m
#6There's a lot to like about w3w, but note that the word->location mapping isn't open data, so think carefully before becoming too reliant on it.
Thanks for this comment.
Seems to me a localization scheme should be open if it ever hopes to get traction.
Re: What3Words: a giant grid of the world made up of 57 trillion squares of 3m x 3m
#7I wonder what the motivation that a nearby location have a completely different name.
It is hard to know if two places are close just by the name.
Re: What3Words: a giant grid of the world made up of 57 trillion squares of 3m x 3m
#8Why even allow similar sounding words? Lamp and lamps? I thought the whole point was to avoid ambiguity. I wonder where there corpus of words comes from..?
Yeah, and you're one letter away from "oops, accidentally shipped my package to Australia"
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 which often results in delays/wasted journeys.
Re: What3Words: a giant grid of the world made up of 57 trillion squares of 3m x 3m
#9They got me all excited and yet left me hanging when it comes to finding out MY w3w address. Where's the link to look up my address and discover my 3 words?
What it's bad at:
- Sharing it with people. Where is snake.delta.chair? Dunno. It gives an offline human no info as to weather that address is even in their country. Normal addresses tell you the state, city, street name and other valuable info. W3w doesn't.
- It's not accurate. What about PO Boxes? Suites and apartment numbers? Duplexes? Office buildings? Skyscrapers? What if the w3w square has 2 or more houses on it? It's good for only rough estimate geo-coordinates.
- It simplifies the memorability of addresses, but destroys an addresses ability to be descriptive.
What's it perfect for:
Sharing your w3w address with computers. Geo mapping using human words rather than data coordinates. You can quickly leave your home / business geo-address on your photos (if you want your photos tied to your address and not the current GPS coordinates of your camera) or blog without having to remember a long string of number coordinates.
Re: What3Words: a giant grid of the world made up of 57 trillion squares of 3m x 3m
#10Why even allow similar sounding words? Lamp and lamps? I thought the whole point was to avoid ambiguity. I wonder where there corpus of words comes from..?
Well, they need about 38500 words, so it seems possible to do without having to use both "lamp" and "lamps", but it's probably not possible to avoid every pair of similar seeming words, eg "principle" and "principal".