Just discovered what3words. Is this a missed opportunity?

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Is this a missed opportunity to make each word successively more granular? (like a quadtree)

You could also cluster names alphabetically to indicate proximity.

E.g., banana.star.green would be close to banana.star.electronics, and would be closer to banana.curry.funk than house.choose.watcher.

The words are not alphabetically sorted to prevent somebody mishear a word and driving to the wrong location.

Good point. Still think granularity could have been embedded in the naming scheme. It would be cool if you could become familiar with the some of the first words in your ?state?, and some second words in your ?city?.

It has a generally negative reputation on HN for a number of factors: https://hn.algolia.com/?q=what3words

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