On 22 November 2015 at 11:07, 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 ? >
Ok, so turning it around, what would be the benefit of this? Why bother? What purpose does it serve? The only purpose I see, it then serves as an independent database of w3w's. Persuming the database is comprehensive enough could perform a lookup via the OSM database to find the location of a given set of words. But as then it effectively makes the proprietary 'app' redundant, what3words themselves might then take exception to it anyway. And/or might infringe database right. As I see it what3words is not really 'andress' system. Its a coordinate system. Its a way of encoding a location in a series of words. OSM generally uses decimal Lat/Long as its encoding. OSM doesnt store every known coordinate in the system. Like addr:mgrs=4QFJ.1234.6789 or British National Grid. Or Indian Grid. Or UTM Coordinates. etc There are lots of ways of encoding coordinates. Each with (generally) a well known conversion from WGS84 lat/long (complicated by the fact there may be a datum transformation needed) If end user wants to use a given system, then can use that conversion. They dont need to exist in the database.
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