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What3Words – Give Precise coordinates anywhere in the world in 3 words (what3words.com)
2 points by kinnth on March 31, 2016 | hide | past | favorite | 4 comments



This has been posted about a dozen times in the past year. Approximately once a month. It almost seems like they have been spaced out this way on purpose.


To get on a meter scale we need about eight digits per lat / long, say nine digits in total. We can get nine digits by multiplying three three digit numbers. So we only need the top 1000 common words. Neat.


Really cool video explaining the concept here - https://vimeo.com/112227335


Really wish they didn't do plural of words...




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