- From: Adrian Hope-Bailie <adrian@hopebailie.com>
- Date: Wed, 20 Jan 2016 11:43:26 +0200
- To: public-geolocation@w3.org
Received on Wednesday, 20 January 2016 09:43:54 UTC
I came across this project today and wondered if the group is aware of it. I found no reference in the mailing list archives. It appears to be a very clever way of addressing any point (3m x 3m square) on earth using a combination of 3 words. For geo-location use cases where accessibility and the need for users to remember their location are important this seems like an interesting consideration. Example: A user that is using a screen-reader that is doing a location query is far more likely to want the what3words address read to them as the result of their query as opposed to the lat/long corordinates. The entire system can be embedded for offline use and is less than 10MB so could easily be integrated into user agents either as a fully embedded service or a proxy to the web service or a combination of the two. Adrian
Received on Wednesday, 20 January 2016 09:43:54 UTC