[sheo]

I'm surprised this article is not taken down. OSM wiki states that what3words the company have a good history of taking down code (and maybe articles) like this one, because algorithm (any algorithm that converts any number of words to coordinates) is patented to them in multiple countries

https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/What3words

[gavinward]

The author, if I remember correctly from twitter, was a thorn in the side of the people who developed this system for quite some time. Given his profession I expect he made sure he was on the right side of the law before publishing this.