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by saagarjha 3100 days ago
While the concept is interesting, the issue I have with What3Words is that they force you to use their service to figure out what an address actually means. In other words, you can't use it at all without being bound to their whims. Kind of a big deal when working with something as open and public and universal as addresses.
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I don't understand your "what it means" statement. Can you elaborate a little bit plz?
Say I successfully convey to you a 3 word address from my proprietary location database: Beep boop blort.

Without access to my database, you don't have much information.