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		EGreg on Oct 29, 2017 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Nigeria has become the seventh country to adopt wh... What if they don't keep their word? A lot will come to depend on this. Geohash is patent free btw. I am sure something can be done here as well.

hobofan on Oct 29, 2017 [–]

The what3words algorithm has a patent pending though[0]. Let's see if it will stand up to geohashes as prior art.

[0]: https://www.google.com/patents/US20160073225

aw3c2 on Oct 29, 2017 | [–]

And this https://patents.stackexchange.com/questions/13629/i-had-inve...

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