Hi Dennis, Thanks for getting back. I think you're suggestion is a very good one and so who should I speak to start getting this implemented? All the best from index.home.raft , Will
On Thu, Feb 2, 2017 7:06 PM, Dennis Nienhüser nienhue...@kde.org wrote: 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: > ------ > [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] > https://links1.mixmaxusercontent.com/JMaLeSgGtbwniLvs7/l/E9lVXdFNLGzxi04vL?messageId=24u8m30Rnzch2nKVk&rn=&re=gInJ3buUGZrBEblZXZk1SZsJmch1mI > [6] > https://links4.mixmaxusercontent.com/JMaLeSgGtbwniLvs7/l/dNmaCT7W20s00DbfR?messageId=24u8m30Rnzch2nKVk&rn=&re=gInJ3buUGZrBEblZXZk1SZsJmch1mI > [7] > https://links2.mixmaxusercontent.com/JMaLeSgGtbwniLvs7/l/OPmKHestE3oepplI7?messageId=24u8m30Rnzch2nKVk&rn=&re=gInJ3buUGZrBEblZXZk1SZsJmch1mI > [8] http://map.what3words.com/index.home.raft > [9] > https://links2.mixmaxusercontent.com/JMaLeSgGtbwniLvs7/l/zvV70JBZPZEvgdtk8?messageId=24u8m30Rnzch2nKVk&rn=&re=gInJ3buUGZrBEblZXZk1SZsJmch1mI Will JohnstonPartnerships +44 7938 165288 what3words.com "An ingenious new system of addresses that can locate any place in the country—and, indeed, in the world"The Economist “A fiendishly clever solution” -The Times “One of the cleverest technologies I have seen” -The FT index.home.raft Grand Prix for Innovation Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity