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Re:What3Words sends legal threat to security researcher for ... by hamilyon2 on Monday May 03, 2021 @02:41AM (#27022297)
I don’t see Kenyan or any other African nation language for that matter in their supported languages list.

As other people noted it is hard to compete with universality of lat/Lon pair.

Re:What3Words sends legal threat to security researcher for ... by ouchjars on Monday May 03, 2021 @03:51AM (#27022625)
Swahili, which they do support, is the national language of Kenya and a lingua franca in the region. They also have Amharic (Ethiopia), Xhosa and Zulu (South Africa).

I agree that supporting a finite set of languages isn't accessible enough, though.

Re:What3Words sends legal threat to security researcher for ... by mparkms on Monday May 03, 2021 @03:50AM (#27022622)
"Kenyan" is not a language. I see Swahili in the list of languages, which along with English is one of the lingua franca of Kenya.
Re:What3Words sends legal threat to security researcher for ... by Closi on Monday May 03, 2021 @06:21AM (#27023350)
> As other people noted it is hard to compete with universality of lat/Lon pair.

In order to get sufficient accuracy, you need to state lat/long to 6 decimal points, meaning the full number is c16 numbers long. It’s certainly not particularly user friendly.

I’m also not entirely sure what is meant by universality - it’s certainly not commonly used (who knows their own lat/long off by heart?) or commonly used for the location of houses or addresses in most of the world (try sending mail by writing a lat/long on it and popping it through the mail). In terms of things that compete with the ‘universality’ of lat/long - the main thing is address/postcode (although it depends on the use case). You can write my address on a postcard and put it in any post box and it will get to my house - that’s the real universal standard.