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Re:Nigeria has become the seventh country to adopt what3word... by hobofan on Sunday October 29, 2017 @03:11PM (#15580809)
The what3words algorithm has a patent pending though[0]. Let's see if it will stand up to geohashes as prior art.

[0]: https://www.google.com/patents/US20160073225

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Re:Nigeria has become the seventh country to adopt what3word... by aw3c2 on Sunday October 29, 2017 @03:13PM (#15580816)
And this https://patents.stackexchange.com/questions/13629/i-had-inve...
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