On Mon, Nov 23, 2015 at 11:29 PM, Jake Wasserman <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 23, 2015 at 11:28 PM, Max <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Additionally it is a mind booggling case of anglocentrism and neo >> colonialism to put english words all over parts of the world where >> people have different scripts and have no idea what those words mean and >> how they are pronounced. how is this better then a local addressing >> scheme or a geocoordinate if you have to remember the latin letters of >> the three 'words' because you don't know their meaning? >> >> > From their website: http://what3words.com/about/ > "We have rolled out our 3 word address system in 9 languages: English, > French, Spanish, Portuguese, Swahili, Russian, German, Turkish & Swedish. > We are adding to those every month and are currently working on Italian, > Greek, Arabic and more." > So, it's less "what3words" and more like "what27words". Starts making datum issues look easy by contrast...
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