🆕 blog! “endless.downward.spiral - is this the beginning of the end of What3Words?”
Long-time readers know that I am not a fan of What Three Words. I think it is a closed, proprietary, and user-unfriendly attempt to enclose the commons. I consider that it has some dangerous failure modes.
A year ago, The Financial Times wrote about What3Words'…
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