Re:What3words divides the world into squares, each with a un...
by Piskvorrr on Friday August 16, 2019 @05:08AM
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Re translations: Sure. But is the expectation "I'm passing a set of words, of course it doesn't translate", or "I'm passing a location, of course it's the same location regardless of language"? (IDK)
Re:What3words divides the world into squares, each with a un...
by furi on Friday August 16, 2019 @05:12AM
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> translations so often don't work in a one-to-one fashion, it'd be risky to expect them to do so.
That's hardly a point in What3Words' favor. They dragged words into it where previously there were only numbers so now they're responsible for finding a solution to the problem of words' cultural specificity. I don't think "our coordinates contain zero information that crosses linguistic boundaries" is a good solution to that problem.
* translations so often don't work in a one-to-one fashion, it'd be risky to expect them to do so.
* this is a big deal.
* had you read the article, it specifically explains that you don't need a data connection to determine the address. Also, GPS coordinates are a terrible way to pass locations between humans, numbers are easy to transpose, mess up, forget.