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Comment by NelsonMinar

A bunch of replies to this are "I implemented my own version of What3Words". That sport has been around for a few years now. https://what3emojis.com/ is probably the most long-lived; I'm writing from telephone bus eggplant. (Hacker News' lack of emoji support makes interop here a little difficult.)

Unfortunately http://www.what3fucks.com/ seems to have ended their incredible journey.

It's a really stupid idea for addressing, triply so when you consider the pathetic little proprietary word database that's What3Words tool for extracting rents. Geohash is the oldest system that solves the problem of "give me a short textual name for a place" and has a nice ability to get more precise.

parent NelsonMinar 5 years ago

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