Can Kobo geopoint feature convert automatically to what3words format? If yes please give us what to do. Thank you so much.
Welcome to the community, @Iwan! KoBoToolbox, at the moment, is not able to convert GPS location to what3words. You will most probably need to use an external application to do so.
Given “The what3words system uses a proprietary algorithm in combination with a limited database” [ref] it will absolutely require an external application to perform any such conversion. It is not feasible to incorporate proprietary and patented software in an open source toolkit.
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…if you wish to convert geopoints to other more popular (and open) GIS formats; eg KML, GeoJSON, WKT - then a number of techniques are available; eg
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Thank you @Kal_Lam for your respond. But can Kobo use information from them regarding convert 3 word addresses to coordinates and vice versa?
Here is their documentation,
https://developer.what3words.com/public-api/docs#overview.
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Thank you, @Iwan for the wonderful document. Pinging in @Josh to see if we could take advantage of them to our system. cc: @jnm
Yes, thanks a lot @Xiphware for your info.
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You could either do a custom fork of ODK Collect/KoboCollect that called the what3words API (with your custom API key) to perform the conversion when needed, or if you had a suitable external app installed on your device that performed such conversion, then you might look into invoking it from KobCollect via the Launching External Apps — ODK Docs mechanism; ie feed your app the source coords as parameters and have it return a string with 3 word address But I dont know if any such app already exists…
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Very interesting info @Xiphware , I think this is relevant to their documentation at:
Maybe there is opportunity that Kobocollect can take advantage of.
Thank you.
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