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remicmacs | 6 years ago

An open-sourced anatidae-based alternative : what3ducks.com

Honestly I'm a bit annoyed by this article because it looks like an ad since it's a private commercial system.

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IronBacon|6 years ago

Until a few weeks ago I've never heard before of 3words, but they seems to be online from a very long time.

Another similar geo location system, if I'm not wrong created by Google but released with a liberal license (Apache) and not patent encumbered, is called "plus.codes".

Edit: according to Wikipedia they were founded in 2013, don't recall why I thought they were older...

remicmacs|6 years ago

That's nice to learn about this alternative.

I haven't worked a lot with geolocation yet. But I'm driven to it because of my geography background, and I would be mad if every service for that kind of work was closed and proprietary.

bigkm|6 years ago

It has to be an add, if they could download the app they surely could've sent their location to someone