Hi, On 11/22/2015 11:39 AM, Colin Smale wrote: > I have heard a few times recently about what3words, a new novel > coordinate/addressing system for the whole world.
It's a blatant attempt at commercializing location. Under the (rather tasteless) guise of finally being able to bring Christmas presents to the slums of this world, they try to get everyone to use their API. In truth they're just planning to make money through selling vanity locations. If businesses pay millions for top level domains, goes the thinking, then they will also pay millions to be found under "great.shoes". By adding their API to your web site, you're pimping out your search form for them to harvest money from it. Ask yourself whether the venture capitalists would really fork out tons of money for someone who wants to bring addressing to the poor. Bye Frederik -- Frederik Ramm ## eMail frede...@remote.org ## N49°00'09" E008°23'33" _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
