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Re:Open Location Code: An Open Source Standard for Addresses by jxfreeman on Tuesday August 20, 2019 @11:40PM (#20754389)
I just got more and more frustrated reading the README because I kept thinking this has already been done brilliantly and in multiple languages. It’s called What3Words.
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Re:Open Location Code: An Open Source Standard for Addresses by andrewshadura on Wednesday August 21, 2019 @02:06AM (#20754895)
No. W3w is not open and not brilliant precisely because it exists in multiple languages.
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