cjrsheldrick

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   by cjrsheldrick 12y ago

   Why not allow the oceans? The most common, shortest words are on land, the longest, least common words are reserved for the oceans, so the "land" 3 word combinations aren't affected at all by the inclusion of the oceans. For
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   by cjrsheldrick 12y ago

   Some users have asked to give an additional name to a square so we have allowed them to. However the 3 word system is being integrated into systems where data connections can't be guaranteed, as it is algorithmic, it's only 5MB bi
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   by cjrsheldrick 12y ago

   That's true when the street address works. But in a lot of the world, street addressing is poor and occasionally non-existent. Also even in countries where street addressing works well, big areas (parks, beaches, stadium entrances, car
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   by cjrsheldrick 12y ago

   All homophones are removed (where/wear, principle/principal) so that the system always works when people communicate a 3 word location by voice.
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   by cjrsheldrick 12y ago

   Context is being sacrificed for a very slick auto-correct system (in beta, going live v soon). When similar sounding 3 word combinations are shuffled around the world, it's pretty clear based on user location which result is the intend
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   by cjrsheldrick 12y ago

   It's much better to be so far away you know it's wrong at the searching stage, rather than 3 miles away as with similar postcodes, co-ordinates etc when you don't know it's wrong which often results in delays/wasted