Yes, this really demonstrates how this system doesn't live up to its promise. As someone previously involved in a SAR team I find the growing expectations on W3W very frustrating. It's like watching a slow train wreck. Ambulance and police services here are rolling it out in a kind of shadow-IT form way too rapidly. The largest problem I have with it by far though is pegging all these organisations to a reliance on a tech startup and a closed license.
that algorithm should be extremely easy to implement with a unit test feasibly testing every single possible coordinate.
Fundamentally this is nothing different than say a base 10 to base 32 conversion as an algorithm and while its possible to mess something like that up if you are amateur enough it would show a huge level of technical incompetence.
Generally its a sign of a company that spends money and thoughts on marketing than on their product.
> So, for example, circle.goal.leader and circle.goal.leaders are less than 1.2 miles (2km) apart along the River Thames.
The second one is in South Dakota for me: https://what3words.com/circle.goal.leaders