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</table>Zzo38http://fileformats.archiveteam.org/index.php?title=What3words&diff=40627&oldid=prevDan Tobias at 16:47, 11 September 20212021-09-11T16:47:31Z<p></p>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="background: #ffa; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>'''what3words''' is a system for identifying locations on the Earth's surface by a group of three words, each such combo corresponding to a 3-by-3 meter square. It is intended as an addressing system to replace such things as street addresses and latitude-and-longitude coordinates, and is actually being used by the postal system in Mongolia for this purpose. Its system is proprietary, and they have used [https://www.owenboswarva.com/misc/W3W_Twitter_20191007.pdf takedown notices] in an attempt to squelch open-sourced reverse-engineered implementations of it, causing some [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21184505 flack]. <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">At least one </del>such implementation <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">is still currently online</del>.</div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>'''what3words''' is a system for identifying locations on the Earth's surface by a group of three words, each such combo corresponding to a 3-by-3 meter square. It is intended as an addressing system to replace such things as street addresses and latitude-and-longitude coordinates, and is actually being used by the postal system in Mongolia for this purpose. Its system is proprietary, and they have used [https://www.owenboswarva.com/misc/W3W_Twitter_20191007.pdf takedown notices] in an attempt to squelch open-sourced reverse-engineered implementations of it, causing some [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21184505 flack]. <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">One </ins>such implementation<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">, WhatFreeWords, was taken down via a domain-name-dispute process and has even been excluded from Internet Archive's Wayback Machine</ins>.</div></td></tr>
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</table>Dan Tobiashttp://fileformats.archiveteam.org/index.php?title=What3words&diff=40626&oldid=prevDan Tobias: Wikidata; link Open Street Map2021-09-11T16:43:12Z<p>Wikidata; link Open Street Map</p>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>'''what3words''' is a system for identifying locations on the Earth's surface by a group of three words, each such combo corresponding to a 3-by-3 meter square. It is intended as an addressing system to replace such things as street addresses and latitude-and-longitude coordinates, and is actually being used by the postal system in Mongolia for this purpose. Its system is proprietary, and they have used [https://www.owenboswarva.com/misc/W3W_Twitter_20191007.pdf takedown notices] in an attempt to squelch open-sourced reverse-engineered implementations of it, causing some [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21184505 flack]. At least one such implementation is still currently online.</div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>'''what3words''' is a system for identifying locations on the Earth's surface by a group of three words, each such combo corresponding to a 3-by-3 meter square. It is intended as an addressing system to replace such things as street addresses and latitude-and-longitude coordinates, and is actually being used by the postal system in Mongolia for this purpose. Its system is proprietary, and they have used [https://www.owenboswarva.com/misc/W3W_Twitter_20191007.pdf takedown notices] in an attempt to squelch open-sourced reverse-engineered implementations of it, causing some [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21184505 flack]. At least one such implementation is still currently online.</div></td></tr>
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</table>Dan Tobiashttp://fileformats.archiveteam.org/index.php?title=What3words&diff=33728&oldid=prevDan Tobias at 14:24, 27 October 20192019-10-27T14:24:10Z<p></p>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="background: #ffa; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>'''what3words''' is a system for identifying locations on the Earth's surface by a group of three words, each such combo corresponding to a 3-by-3 meter square. It is intended as an addressing system to replace such things as street addresses and latitude-and-longitude coordinates. Its system is proprietary, and they have used [https://www.owenboswarva.com/misc/W3W_Twitter_20191007.pdf takedown notices] in an attempt to squelch open-sourced reverse-engineered implementations of it, causing some [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21184505 flack]. At least one such implementation is still currently online.</div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>'''what3words''' is a system for identifying locations on the Earth's surface by a group of three words, each such combo corresponding to a 3-by-3 meter square. It is intended as an addressing system to replace such things as street addresses and latitude-and-longitude coordinates<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">, and is actually being used by the postal system in Mongolia for this purpose</ins>. Its system is proprietary, and they have used [https://www.owenboswarva.com/misc/W3W_Twitter_20191007.pdf takedown notices] in an attempt to squelch open-sourced reverse-engineered implementations of it, causing some [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21184505 flack]. At least one such implementation is still currently online<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">.</ins></div></td></tr>
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</table>Effect2http://fileformats.archiveteam.org/index.php?title=What3words&diff=33726&oldid=prevDan Tobias at 02:14, 27 October 20192019-10-27T02:14:12Z<p></p>
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'''what3words''' is a system for identifying locations on the Earth's surface by a group of three words, each such combo corresponding to a 3-by-3 meter square. It is intended as an addressing system to replace such things as street addresses and latitude-and-longitude coordinates.<br />
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== Links ==<br />
* [http://what3words.com/ Official site]<br />
* [https://map.what3words.com/ Interactive map]<br />
* [http://developer.what3words.com/ Developer site]<br />
* [https://docs.what3words.com/api/v2/ API docs]<br />
* [https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/what3words/id657878530?mt=8&ign-mpt=uo%3D4 iOS app]<br />
* [https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.what3words.android Android app]<br />
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