‘Random’ Words To Describe Grid-Locations On Earth?

what3words? Tried using it, for about a month, only to find nobody was prepared to also install the app, or remember 3 words chosen by an unknown third party, or clicking "Navigate to" in that app and then opening Google Maps, while having been obliged to create an account with them, which by that point on android phones is already being milked as advertiser food because they're opened using just 1 Google account that happens to be on the same device. It's just another deep hole towards collecting big data from innocent android users. If anything, it seems to be trying to patent location info, which is ridiculous. And the "///" seem to be a way to induce thoughts of a protocol being used, but it isn't really a protocol, just window-dressing by an (undoubtedly) overpaid design-squad. What I would prefer is a translation of LAT + LONG into just one numbers string. That way you could just start at 1, which could for example be the UTC or GMT 0 or something random that is used a lot, and end with whatever many locations have been tagged using a number. That way it would be fair, just as fair…

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