README.md

w3w-java-wrapper

Java wrapper for the what3words web-API.

Use the what3words API in your Java applications.

Methods

Code Samples

String apiKey = "my-super-w3w-apikey";
What3Words w3w = new What3Words(apiKey);
String[] words = {"goldfish", "fuzzy", "aggregates"};
try {
    double[] coords = w3w.wordsToPosition(words);
    System.out.println(coords[0] +  " / " + coords[1]);
} catch (Exception e) {
    // do your error handling
}

String apiKey = "my-super-w3w-apikey";
What3Words w3w = new What3Words(apiKey);
Double[] coords = {49.422636, 8.320833};
try {
    // optionally set a different language
    String[] words = w3w.positionToWords(coords, "de");
    System.out.println(words[0] +  "." + words[1] +  "." + words[2]);
} catch (Exception e) {
    // do your error handling
}

Build

JDK and Maven need to be installed on your system.

• Clone this repository
• Run mvn package -DW3W_API_KEY=YOUR-API-KEY or
• Run mvn package in case you do not want to enter your API key for test. Tests requiring API key will be skipped.
• Under target/ you will find the file w3w-java-wrapper-<version>-jar-with-dependencies.jar which can be embedded into your Java application

Contributions

Any contribution is warmly welcome:

• Documentation
• Bug reporting
• Bug fixes
• Code enhancements

Credits

Thanks to what3words for offering such a great project and for any help we received by their team.

Also a big thank you to all who contributed to this project:

• @chrismayer
• @tsamaya
• @jstastny

Who do I talk to?

You need more information or support? Please contact us at

info__(at)meggsimum(dot)__de