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Re:What3Words sends legal threat to security researcher for ... by TheCoelacanth on Monday May 03, 2021 @02:37PM (#27028962)
Are people who can't afford to name their roads really going to pay a premium for a slight usability improvement over plain GPS coordinates?
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Re:What3Words sends legal threat to security researcher for ... by Closi on Tuesday May 04, 2021 @10:38AM (#27038067)
Apparently yes - See Djibouti-post.

Lat/Long's are actually pretty horrible to work with from a post/logistics perspective. There is a reason why nowhere in the world actually writes the lat/long on their mail!

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