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Re:What3Words – The Algorithm by jhgb on Sunday May 02, 2021 @02:01PM (#27017333)
> https://what3emojis.com/ is probably the most long-lived

What's the spatial resolution of that? Seems to be dozens of meters at best.

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Re:What3Words – The Algorithm by tofof on Sunday May 02, 2021 @07:55PM (#27020193)
By my measurement, no finer than 4290 feet / 1.31 km. https://i.imgur.com/HKN3hyN.jpg

Both of these endpoints (and everything in between) are [telephone][megaphone][currency-exchange]. https://i.imgur.com/TzUU1cG.png https://i.imgur.com/5iTtm6c.png

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Re:What3Words – The Algorithm by SahAssar on Sunday May 02, 2021 @04:40PM (#27018808)
The about page says 4m, but I could drag their example map over multiple blocks in my city without the emojis changing.
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Re:What3Words – The Algorithm by jhgb on Sunday May 02, 2021 @05:46PM (#27019352)
That's exactly the thing I noticed, too.
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Re:What3Words – The Algorithm by dingaling on Monday May 03, 2021 @01:24AM (#27021890)
My phone doesn't have the emoji character for the second element around Dartford, London, UK so I just see an invalid grey box.

Not a resilient solution.

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Re:What3Words – The Algorithm by NelsonMinar on Monday May 03, 2021 @12:32PM (#27027133)
I regret to inform you this parody of What3Words is not a completely usable and accurate system.
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