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by deftnerd 4406 days ago
I thought that What3Words.com had a clever solution to this problem but they just didn't seem to get any traction. They simply sliced the planet into billions (trillions?) of pieces geographically and assigned 3 words to each square meter space. This allowed someone to say "meet me at foggy banana stovepipe".

Some of the downsides was that it only used the english language and that the next square meter over might be "purple dolphin bug" so there was no intuitive relation between square meter locations in any region.
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timwiththebo 4406 days ago
Yep, Chris and the team at W3W are also trying to solve a similar problem. We're big fans of what they're doing and regularly share with each other thoughts & learnings about how to solve this lack of address system problem.

Check out their mobile app, it's really nice.

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euskode 4406 days ago
Is W3W dead? All this past tense has me curious now. Surely a unique approach.
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