Re:What3Words – The Algorithm
by WaffleIronMaker on Tuesday May 04, 2021 @12:29PM
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Exactly. Admittedly, fm19oc75hv feels much less 'friendly' than broken.turned.ahead, but it is significantly more functional.
Code becomes longer according to the required precision, so eight digits are enough for a typical city neighborhood, ten digits goes to a 30x20m block that is good for disambiguation even in the most dense urban areas. Adding more digits will work too, but that just more work.
A typical location would be something like: fm19oc75hv
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maidenhead_Locator_System