https://www.geoportail.gouv.fr...
Right-clicking a location and choosing "Adresse / Coordonnees du lieu" will display the corresponding w3w address.
If it's trusted by governments, then it's probably meant to stay and/or the governments already have access to the way an address is calculated.
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- It wasn't a big fat 55Mb download, which could take forever to download if you're lost in a low signal area
- It was offering an offline map mode, so you don't need to download megabytes of maps before seeing where you are
Otherwise a pretty clever address system.
Yes you could give GPS coordinates, but if the accuracy is not enough, you can manually pinpoint your location to your precise 3x3 meters square.
Damn it, no accents as well.
"Baidu ditu" and "gaode ditu"
Everyone in China already use Baidu Maps () or Gaode Maps (), why bother adding another one?
Of course they could just use OSM, but then... No control over what's displayed.
New to Slashdot, seems like chinese characters are stripped from the posts.
I wrote in the parenthesis: Baidu Maps (bidù dìtú) and Gaode Maps (go dé dìtú)
Everyone in China already use Baidu Maps () or Gaode Maps (), why bother adding another one?
Of course they could just use OSM, but then... No control over what's displayed.
We all agree on the necessity of compromise. We just can't agree on when it's necessary to compromise. -- Larry Wall
