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• I Know What Your Password Was Last Summer

  Something to add to their list of common passwords is the What3Words database of locations https://what3words.com It's something like 50trillion sets of looks-random strings. That's quite a lot, but if the list could be narrowed very significantly to get some likely results by selecting locations in: 1) cities where a company is physically located 2) large capital & global cities 3) significant landmarks I see... - Source: Hacker News / 4 months ago

• No rapid numbers on driveways

  I’m waiting for these guys to make a breakthrough here. Source: 6 months ago

• Unique Challenges of Geocoding in India

  I assume this is the problem that https://what3words.com/ is trying to solve. But I guess it being in English makes it a less good solution. - Source: Hacker News / 8 months ago

• Planning and Crash Prevention

  Crashing in a Metro Park follows very similar recommendations as to what’s above. However, accurately describing your location along our Metro Parks Greenway trails and systems can often be tricky! And just for that reason, the parks department uses the app What3Words to help people share their exact location with emergency responders. Whether you’ve crashed or come across someone who needs aid for any reason,... Source: 9 months ago

• Worst3Words

  I've been having fund with a game I call Worst3Words, trying to find the worst What3Words (https://what3words.com/) address. The meaning of worst is flexible e.g. Confusing ///senses.census.send Offensive ///retain.towers.slip (look up the location) Or just... Odd ///aargh.send.help But has to be valid. Source: 9 months ago

Organic Maps mentions (99)

• Turn Your iPhone into a Dumb Phone

  A specific app which displays mapping data from OpenStreeetMap: https://organicmaps.app/. - Source: Hacker News / 11 days ago

• 2024: The year of the OpenStreetMap vector maps

  There is a beta of Organic Maps for Linux. Check out bottom of this page: https://organicmaps.app/ I would still want to to know if I can selfhost something of similar, low complexity in my home network. - Source: Hacker News / 4 months ago

• Apple Maps wrongly lists restaurant permanently closed, costing owner thousands

  I live in a country in Europe where roaming is prohibitively expensive, so use offline OpenStreetMap abroad a lot, with different apps, mostly https://organicmaps.app. - Source: Hacker News / 4 months ago

• Quairading shire erects signs telling travellers to ignore Google Maps

  Https://organicmaps.app/ is well suited for (completely) offline routing. - Source: Hacker News / 5 months ago

• Osmapp – A Universal OpenStreetMap App

  Personally I am using [organicmaps](https://organicmaps.app/) which is using OpenStreetMap data, and it works really well. - Source: Hacker News / 5 months ago