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It's a clever idea, but one big downside is that what3words is a private company, and their geocoding scheme is proprietary. That means their 3-word addresses are meaningless unless you are using their app.

They are threatening legal action against a researcher who reverse engineered their geocoding to create an open source version of it.

https://techcrunch.com/2021/04...reewords/#:~:text=It's%20not%20the%20only%20downside,for%20problems%20or%20security%20vulnerabilities.

7/21/237:46 PM

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