Re:Deep dive into the UK air traffic control meltdown
by pmarreck on Tuesday September 12, 2023 @10:23AM
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Great ideas all!
It should be discussed like this! It's clear that the w3w people didn't even do the bare minimum here!
The thing is, once you agree that some words are subpar or need translations, you can do a 1-to-1 mapping.
The problem with What3Words is that supporting the original word set will always be a pain even if they release a v2 word set with a 1-to-1 mapping (I believe they've already released versions for other languages?)
re: Geiger- parsing it could trivially accept misspellings of words
It should be discussed like this! It's clear that the w3w people didn't even do the bare minimum here!
The thing is, once you agree that some words are subpar or need translations, you can do a 1-to-1 mapping.
The problem with What3Words is that supporting the original word set will always be a pain even if they release a v2 word set with a 1-to-1 mapping (I believe they've already released versions for other languages?)
re: Geiger- parsing it could trivially accept misspellings of words