8. No visitors
No post, no deliveries, no taxis
Open a bank account, get utilities
education and healthcare
ID card, mobile phone…
No identity
9. You rely on the geocoder to make sense of what we type into digital maps –
whether from Google, Apple, Nokia...
Making a geocoder that works with 75% accuracy, all the time, in multiple
languages occupies 100% of the time of the dedicated teams of software experts who care
for and feed geocoders.
Getting to 100% accuracy hasn't been done yet and probably never will.”
Gary Gale (Head of APIs, Ordnance Survey) for the Guardian 2014
“Digital maps' unsung hero: how the geocoder puts us on the grid”
10. “Address data is really the most important and interesting
thing to work on [right now].”
Steve Coast (founder of OpenStreetMap), Techcrunch 2014
”For The Love Of Open Mapping Data”
22. Pricing
Our aim is to:
make what3words as accessible as possible
support people who are doing good things around the world
remove the barriers to what3words gaining widespread adoption
www.what3words.com/pricing
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26. Online API – sign-up online
Offline SDKs – 10 Mbytes for iOS or Android
what3words -> location
location -> what3words