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What3words: Identify any location anywhere with just three words

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-49319760

by blahedo • 7 years ago

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ColinWright• 7 years ago

As I said earlier[0][1]:

Extreme scepticism: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20704017

Personally, I think that W3W is a really, really bad system to solve a probably real problem.

Other submissions of this puff piece:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20723965

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20706030

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[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20725818

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20732249

texhewson• 7 years ago

It may or may not be a bad system to solve a real problem, but it's interesting to see the the IP is locked down and it's an expensive way of solving a real problem. Is it really so hard to use an app that gives you two numbers? Your phone usually knows that already?????

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