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It seems that what3words is proprietary. The app on AppStore expects 40โ‚ฌ annually for quite basic functionality, hard to see how something with potentially useful functionality can get global acceptance at these costs.

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[-] nitroemdash@lemmy.wtf 3 points 1 day ago

https://plus.codes/ click ใƒŸ > Grid

The full plus-code is actually 8 characters before the plus and 2โ€“3 after. Usually you only need 4 to get within one city. Just like with phone numbers, where the first geographical part is often omitted.

[-] evasive_chimpanzee@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

Actually seeing the grid makes it way easier, I think. I bet there's a way to turn that on in the Google maps app itself.

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