What3words, the GPS app that can find anyone anywhere

Re:What3words, the GPS app that can find anyone anywhere by onion2k on Friday June 29, 2018 @05:41AM (#17423479)

I honestly have no idea what some of the words mean.

Do you need to? If you don't speak the appropriate language you won't know the meaning of the words for any place. That doesn't make it any less useful so long as you can pronounce them.

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Re:What3words, the GPS app that can find anyone anywhere by BrandoElFollito on Friday June 29, 2018 @06:18AM (#17423610)

I French this is extremely important.

For one we have plenty of homphones. Is it saut, seau, sôt sceau ?

Then if you do not know a word, say châtière, it can become chattière.

So only homophonically unique words and well known ones should be used

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Re:What3words, the GPS app that can find anyone anywhere by Findus23 on Friday June 29, 2018 @05:48AM (#17423501)

But you need to know how to write the word and in which grammatical case the word is or otherwise you end up on the wrong end of the earth because every homophone also maps to a real location.

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Re:What3words, the GPS app that can find anyone anywhere by realusername on Friday June 29, 2018 @05:47AM (#17423496)

The main goal of this project is to have memorable words instead of a meaningless address name, if that's not any better than the existing system, why would we use it?

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