what3words in the Marble project

[Dennis Nienhüser]

Hi Will,

there are two viable ways to move forward:
- setup Marble on your system according to [1], implement the features 
yourself, test and submit patches at [2]
- create tasks in [3] such that people like upcoming GSoC students 
looking for hands-on tasks [4] have something to work on

The former requires some time and C++ skills on your side, the latter 
means waiting until someone picks up the tasks.

Regards,
Dennis

[1] https://marble.kde.org/sources.php
[2] https://phabricator.kde.org/differential/
[3] https://phabricator.kde.org/project/view/38/
[4] https://community.kde.org/GSoC#Instructions_for_students

Am 06.02.2017 13:23, schrieb 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 [1] ,
> 
> 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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>> 
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>> 
>>> 
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>> 
>>> [8] http://map.what3words.com/index.home.raft
>> 
>>> [9]
>> 
>>> 
>> 
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> 
> Will Johnston
> Partnerships
> +44 7938 165288
> what3words.com [2]
> 
> "An ingenious new system of addresses that can locate any place in the
> country—and, indeed, in the world" The Economist [3]
> “A fiendishly clever solution” - The Times [4]
> “One of the cleverest technologies I have seen” - The FT  [5]
> 
> 		 [6]
> 		index.home.raft [7]
> 
> 		_ [8]
> Grand Prix for Innovation_
> Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity
> 
> 
> 
> Links:
> ------
> [1] http://w3w.co/index.home.raft
> [2] http://what3words.com/
> [3]
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> [4]
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