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Re:Why Bother with What Three Words? by teach on Thursday March 28, 2019 @11:19AM (#19513045)
Are you talking about existing English words? I'm not sure there are enough longer words for this to be possible, depending on the range of numbers being encoded.
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Re:Why Bother with What Three Words? by mirimir on Thursday March 28, 2019 @11:30AM (#19513168)
No, I wasn't.

Sorry, I just don't get the point. Implementing a bunch of proprietary location-encoding schemes is just insane. I do see the profit motive, obviously. But I can only hope that people will avoid using stuff like this.

Maybe if it were totally open-source. And if it were implemented by some recognized international entity. Maybe some part of the UN.

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