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Re:Why Bother with What Three Words? by GedByrne on Friday March 29, 2019 @02:28AM (#19519582)
This is a feature not a bug.

If one of the words is slightly wrong, then you want it to be obvious.

If the Kentucky emergency operator adds an extra s they will see that it can’t be right. With the contiguous numbering the ambulance would be close, but probably still unable to find you.

See page 23 of the patent: https://patentscope.wipo.int/search/docs2/pct/WO2014170646/p...

Re:Why Bother with What Three Words? by mirimir on Friday March 29, 2019 @07:56AM (#19520802)
OK. But you need the W3W API to do that. Just by looking at two identifiers, without that, you'd have no clue about where they are.