I think their idea is that you can quote a location with the words which for humans is much easier to memorize and less prone to mishearing over dodgy phone and radio links than lat/lon or some other scientific grid reference.
On 24 November 2015 08:45:18 CET, Paul Johnson <[email protected]> wrote: >On Sun, Nov 22, 2015 at 6:00 AM, Stefano <[email protected]> wrote: > >> 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 >> > >I hate to be the spoilsport here. Given that latitude and longitude is >already a thing that exists, is verifiable, widely used, universal, and >potentially infinitely precise, yet granular to an entire degree of >arc, >and coherent (it's generally possible to visibly estimate proximity >between >two pairs of coordinates just by looking at them), it begs the >question: >How are these things extant? o3w and w3w have zero buy-in, have no >cogent >pattern, are subject to change without rhyme or reason, and don't >scale. >It's like street addressing, but worse... > > >------------------------------------------------------------------------ > >_______________________________________________ >talk mailing list >[email protected] >https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
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