[HN Gopher] What3Words: App used by emergency services under scr...
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       What3Words: App used by emergency services under scrutiny
        
       Author : pseudolus
       Score  : 8 points
       Date   : 2021-04-29 19:44 UTC (3 hours ago)
        
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 (TXT) w3m dump (www.bbc.com)
        
       | theamk wrote:
       | I find it sad that What3words were used widely at all in
       | government services, given that this is a proprietary service
       | with single point of failure with many open alternatives
       | available.
        
         | 4wsn wrote:
         | It's not ideal, but I'd rather something like this get adopted
         | from the bottom up (actual rescuers taking initiative) rather
         | than the alternative, where an overly complex, expensive, and
         | barely working attempted solution is implemented by
         | bureaucrats.
        
           | Avshalom wrote:
           | I mean you already need a working phone and gps. Why would
           | there ever have been an alternative
        
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