what3words in the Marble project

[Dennis Nienhüser]

Hi Will,

the 3words => location conversion could be realized easily as a search 
runner plugin. The hostip plugin [1] is pretty similar and could be used 
as a base.

Converting a GPS location to a 3words code could be done by extending 
our "copy coordinates" action. Currently it copies directly to the 
clipboard, but we could bring up a dialog instead which would offer 
different variants (e.g. DMS, Decimal, geouri, what3words).

Looking forward to a patch, awesome.like.marble [2] ;-)

Regards,
Dennis

[1] 
https://cgit.kde.org/marble.git/tree/src/plugins/runner/hostip/HostipRunner.cpp
[2] https://map.what3words.com/awesome.like.marble

Am 30.01.2017 11:38, schrieb Will Johnston:
> Hi Marble developers,
> 
> I spoke briefly with Albert Vaca, the maintainer of KDE Connect, who
> referred me this email address.
> 
> I'm not sure if you have heard of what3words, but essentially we are a
> way of referring to any location in the world in an accurate and
> easily communicable way.  We divided the world into 57 trillion 3m x
> 3m squares, and then assigned a unique 3 word address to every square.
>  So while I am writing to you from our office at index.home.raft [1] ,
> the entrance to the Sydney Opera House is at spoon.belong.vote [2] .
> 
> Every single 3m x 3m square on the world's surface has a 3 word
> address in this way.
> 
> This is useful when trying to express your location or trying to
> navigate or deliver things to poorly addressed areas (most of the
> world).
> 
> We have an open API which simply converts 3 word addresses into GPS
> coordinates, and vice-versa.  It would be great to talk about the
> possibility of integrating this into Marble.
> 
> Please feel free to get in touch if this sounds like something you
> would be interested in.
> 
> Best,
> 
> Will Johnston
> Partnerships
> +44 7938 165288
> what3words.com [3]
> 
> "An ingenious new system of addresses that can locate any place in the
> country—and, indeed, in the world" The Economist [4]
> “A fiendishly clever solution” - The Times [5]
> “One of the cleverest technologies I have seen” - The FT [6]
> 
> 		 [7]
> 		index.home.raft [8]
> 
> 		_ [9]
> Grand Prix for Innovation_
> Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity
> 
> 
> 
> Links:
> ------
> [1] http://w3w.co/index.home.raft
> [2] http://w3w.co/spoon.belong.vote
> [3] http://what3words.com/
> [4]
> https://links3.mixmaxusercontent.com/JMaLeSgGtbwniLvs7/l/LhhUhoyPu9jjx7uRh?messageId=24u8m30Rnzch2nKVk&rn=&re=gInJ3buUGZrBEblZXZk1SZsJmch1mI
> [5]
> https://links1.mixmaxusercontent.com/JMaLeSgGtbwniLvs7/l/E9lVXdFNLGzxi04vL?messageId=24u8m30Rnzch2nKVk&rn=&re=gInJ3buUGZrBEblZXZk1SZsJmch1mI
> [6]
> https://links4.mixmaxusercontent.com/JMaLeSgGtbwniLvs7/l/dNmaCT7W20s00DbfR?messageId=24u8m30Rnzch2nKVk&rn=&re=gInJ3buUGZrBEblZXZk1SZsJmch1mI
> [7]
> https://links2.mixmaxusercontent.com/JMaLeSgGtbwniLvs7/l/OPmKHestE3oepplI7?messageId=24u8m30Rnzch2nKVk&rn=&re=gInJ3buUGZrBEblZXZk1SZsJmch1mI
> [8] http://map.what3words.com/index.home.raft
> [9]
> https://links2.mixmaxusercontent.com/JMaLeSgGtbwniLvs7/l/zvV70JBZPZEvgdtk8?messageId=24u8m30Rnzch2nKVk&rn=&re=gInJ3buUGZrBEblZXZk1SZsJmch1mI