Hi Will,
the 3words => location conversion could be realized easily as a search
runner plugin. The hostip plugin [1] is pretty similar and could be used
as a base.
Converting a GPS location to a 3words code could be done by extending
our "copy coordinates" action. Currently it copies directly to the
clipboard, but we could bring up a dialog instead which would offer
different variants (e.g. DMS, Decimal, geouri, what3words).
Looking forward to a patch, awesome.like.marble [2] ;-)
Regards,
Dennis
[1]
https://cgit.kde.org/marble.git/tree/src/plugins/runner/hostip/HostipRunner.cpp
[2] https://map.what3words.com/awesome.like.marble
Am 30.01.2017 11:38, schrieb Will Johnston:
Hi Marble developers,
I spoke briefly with Albert Vaca, the maintainer of KDE Connect, who
referred me this email address.
I'm not sure if you have heard of what3words, but essentially we are a
way of referring to any location in the world in an accurate and
easily communicable way. We divided the world into 57 trillion 3m x
3m squares, and then assigned a unique 3 word address to every square.
So while I am writing to you from our office at index.home.raft [1] ,
the entrance to the Sydney Opera House is at spoon.belong.vote [2] .
Every single 3m x 3m square on the world's surface has a 3 word
address in this way.
This is useful when trying to express your location or trying to
navigate or deliver things to poorly addressed areas (most of the
world).
We have an open API which simply converts 3 word addresses into GPS
coordinates, and vice-versa. It would be great to talk about the
possibility of integrating this into Marble.
Please feel free to get in touch if this sounds like something you
would be interested in.
Best,
Will Johnston
Partnerships
+44 7938 165288
what3words.com [3]
"An ingenious new system of addresses that can locate any place in the
country—and, indeed, in the world" The Economist [4]
“A fiendishly clever solution” - The Times [5]
“One of the cleverest technologies I have seen” - The FT [6]
[7]
index.home.raft [8]
_ [9]
Grand Prix for Innovation_
Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity
Links:
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[1] http://w3w.co/index.home.raft
[2] http://w3w.co/spoon.belong.vote
[3] http://what3words.com/
[4]
https://links3.mixmaxusercontent.com/JMaLeSgGtbwniLvs7/l/LhhUhoyPu9jjx7uRh?messageId=24u8m30Rnzch2nKVk&rn=&re=gInJ3buUGZrBEblZXZk1SZsJmch1mI
[5]
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[6]
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[7]
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[8] http://map.what3words.com/index.home.raft
[9]
https://links2.mixmaxusercontent.com/JMaLeSgGtbwniLvs7/l/zvV70JBZPZEvgdtk8?messageId=24u8m30Rnzch2nKVk&rn=&re=gInJ3buUGZrBEblZXZk1SZsJmch1mI
