Re: [OSM-talk] What3words

2015-11-22 Thread Maarten Deen
On 2015-11-22 12:07, Colin Smale wrote: I guess there would be no objections to someone adding addr:w3w:en=nice.place.here ? Or addr:w3w=en:nice.place.here ? Reading about what it is, it is just a lookup between some random three words and a location. We don't map addr:latlon=51.34,3.45 in

Re: [OSM-talk] What3words

2015-11-22 Thread Simon Poole
While developing a similar system to w3w might be an attractive proposal, have you checked what the w3w patent covers given that the thoughts in the referenced issue would seem to result in at least a very similar system? Am 22.11.2015 um 13:00 schrieb Stefano: > Hi, > just for reference in May

Re: [OSM-talk] What3words

2015-11-22 Thread Colin Smale
On 2015-11-22 13:18, Maarten Deen wrote: > On 2015-11-22 12:07, Colin Smale wrote: > >> I guess there would be no objections to someone adding >> addr:w3w:en=nice.place.here ? Or addr:w3w=en:nice.place.here ? > > Reading about what it is, it is just a lookup between some random three words

Re: [OSM-talk] What3words

2015-11-22 Thread Colin Smale
On 2015-11-22 13:42, Mateusz Konieczny wrote: > On Sun, 22 Nov 2015 13:16:24 +0100 > Colin Smale wrote: > > On 2015-11-22 13:04, Mateusz Konieczny wrote: > > On Sun, 22 Nov 2015 12:07:43 +0100 > Colin Smale wrote: > > I guess there would be

Re: [OSM-talk] What3words

2015-11-22 Thread Jóhannes Birgir Jensson
I see many merits in What3Words solution. I don't think it should be incorporated into OSM en-masse but a place adding its address:what3words=pull.donkey.cart should be fine in my view, just like them adding phone= and even the disappearing fax= Þann 22.11.2015 18:08, skrifaði Peter

Re: [OSM-talk] What3words

2015-11-22 Thread Peter Gervai
On Sun, Nov 22, 2015 at 2:01 PM, ajt1...@gmail.com wrote: > On 22/11/2015 12:51, Colin Smale wrote: > ...and once again, as seems to be the norm in OSM, any minority interest > which is not supported by the oligarchy gets mercilessly shot down. > ... except it's not _just_

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