Re:FixPhrase – open-source, patent-free what3words alternative
by regularfry on Wednesday June 22, 2022 @03:52AM
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The problem with any system like this is that for it to be useful you can't change it after its launched. Any problems with the word list or location allocation are permanently baked in.
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Re:FixPhrase – open-source, patent-free what3words alternative
by kybernetikos on Wednesday June 22, 2022 @04:23AM
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That's not necessarily true. You can make sure your decoding system understands both the new wordlist and the old wordlist but only gives you new encodings based on the new wordlist.