Observed arrival · 2026-10-16
Tlhano gives places five speakable words
A location-sharing tool that turns a spot or coordinates into five words, with options to copy, share, or open directions in a maps app.
- For
- People sharing locations by voice or map link
- Worth noticing
- Its stated encoding uses level-22 S2 cells (about 4.8 m²), a 4,096-word vocabulary, and a CRC-12 check word.
Field notes
The page describes a pipeline from latitude and longitude to an S2 cell at level 22, then through a 47-bit Hilbert ordinal, a mixing step, and a CRC-12 check word before producing five terms from a fixed 4,096-word vocabulary. It says the check word lets the system detect a single incorrect word and that `/v1/suggest` can repair it; those claims are presented by the project, not independently verified here. The page also links API documentation, a technical paper, reference code, and three maps apps.
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