Without reading white papers on either, doesn’t @what3words suffer from inability to locate without lookup? This google one suggests to me that location could be algorithmically computed, offline if needs be?
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Plus Codes are algorithmically computed, always offline (there are open source libraries for a bunch of different languages), and no database required.
what3words is algorithmically computed, works offline, and no database required | It is also more memorable, less prone to error and built for voice input |https://vimeo.com/213843651
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What am I missing here? The what3words library for Swift says it just wraps a REST (online) API https://github.com/what3words/w3w-swift-wrapper …. The open source Plus Codes library for Swift by comparison transforms the coordinate locally (offline) http://github.com/google/open-location-code-swift ….
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