An open-sourced anatidae-based alternative : what3ducks.com
Honestly I'm a bit annoyed by this article because it looks like an ad since it's a private commercial system.
Honestly I'm a bit annoyed by this article because it looks like an ad since it's a private commercial system.
Another similar geo location system, if I'm not wrong created by Google but released with a liberal license (Apache) and not patent encumbered, is called "plus.codes".
Edit: according to Wikipedia they were founded in 2013, don't recall why I thought they were older...
I haven't worked a lot with geolocation yet. But I'm driven to it because of my geography background, and I would be mad if every service for that kind of work was closed and proprietary.