- From: Raphaël Troncy <raphael.troncy@eurecom.fr>
- Date: Fri, 21 Aug 2015 11:41:19 +0200
- To: Frans Knibbe <frans.knibbe@geodan.nl>, public-locadd@w3.org
Dear Frans, > A colleague pointed me at a new way of identifying a location: Open > Location Code <http://openlocationcode.com/>, an initiative from Google. > It is a way to identify a location with a short code, an alternative to > a postal address. Apparently the codes are assigned based on a global > lat/lon grid. Well, the short explanation on the website is clear enough. A similar initiative, that was presented during the 2014 Linking Geospatial Data workshop organized by W3C / OGC, is http://what3words.com/ ... where here, anyone can bid and buy 3 words to refer to any of the 57 trillion 3mx3m squares on earth. Raphaël -- Raphaël Troncy EURECOM, Campus SophiaTech Multimedia Communications Department 450 route des Chappes, 06410 Biot, France. e-mail: raphael.troncy@eurecom.fr & raphael.troncy@gmail.com Tel: +33 (0)4 - 9300 8242 Fax: +33 (0)4 - 9000 8200 Web: http://www.eurecom.fr/~troncy/
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