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 I saw a discussion on okfn-labs on "opening > up" w3w by doing an open location code system (different from the > Google one). > https://lists.okfn.org/pipermail/okfn-labs/2015-May/001623.html > > See also https://github.com/pudo/open3words/issues/1 > > Regards, > Stefano > > 2015-11-22 12:37 GMT+01:00 Simon Poole <[email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>>: > > It is not as if there are not numerous alternative addressing schemes > see for example this list (which was produced for an open system from, > gosh, the goog). > > > https://github.com/google/open-location-code/blob/master/docs/comparison.adoc > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > talk mailing list > [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk > >
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