what3words in the Marble project

[Will Johnston]

Hi Dennis,
Thanks for getting back.  I think you're suggestion is a very good one and so
who should I speak to start getting this implemented?
All the best from index.home.raft  ,
Will  





On Thu, Feb 2, 2017 7:06 PM, Dennis Nienhüser nienhueser at kde.org  wrote:
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]

>
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> [5]

>
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> [6]

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> [8] http://map.what3words.com/index.home.raft

> [9]

>
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+44 7938 165288
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"An ingenious new system of addresses that can locate any place in the
country—and, indeed, in the world"The Economist
“A fiendishly clever solution” -The Times
“One of the cleverest technologies I have seen” -The FT
index.home.raft



Grand Prix for Innovation
Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity
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