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Re:Why Bother with What Three Words? by ghayes on Thursday March 28, 2019 @03:25PM (#19515644)
I thought this was a wink and a nod to just using standard latitude/longitude. Doesn't lat/long naturally solve each of your bullet points?

•Length-optimized. More digits = more precision, check.

•Precision optimized. Except for adding zeros, check.

•Precision-focused. Sig figs cover this.

•Logic-optimized. Adding or subtracting to lat or long respectively.

•Spheroid-optimized. I believe this applies to latitude and longitude, as well, since there's less surface area for a given coordinate space. Though, maybe it's the reverse, that it's more precise at the poles.

Re:Why Bother with What Three Words? by ehsankia on Thursday March 28, 2019 @03:29PM (#19515688)
They do speak of characters, which then starts to just sound like https://plus.codes