What3Words – The Algorithm

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  • wherewords

  • > I just want to pull something into my project

    My experimentation mostly lives here: https://github.com/kybernetikos/wherewords/tree/main/lib/wor...

    If you're coding in JS, I'd use https://www.npmjs.com/package/verbal-id for 10bits, bip39 for 11 bits, and maybe my wordlist for 12 bits.

  • nitter

    Alternative Twitter front-end

  • Here [1] is the same thread on nitter (a twitter alternative that does not require Javascript to read). Other nitter instances can be seen here: [2]

    The twitter thread also contained a reference to this interesting article on "Why bother with What Three Words?"[3]

    I've always thought W3W was a neat core idea poorly thought through, and hope one day there'll be a truly open alternative that solves the many issues W3W itself has.

    [1] - https://nitter.cc/AaronToponce/status/1387933438305394690

    [2] - https://github.com/zedeus/nitter/wiki/Instances

    [3] - https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2019/03/why-bother-with-what-three-...

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  • python-mnemonic

    :snake: Mnemonic code for generating deterministic keys, BIP39

  • Crypto wallets may use BIP39 protocol, it might be close to a 'standard'?

    https://github.com/bitcoin/bips/blob/master/bip-0039.mediawi...

  • OSTN02c

    C implementation of Ordnance Survey OSTN02 transformation

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