Navigate the World via three words

[Ming the Merciless]

So as far as I can see - the idea is to use these 3 slightly cryptic 3 word codes to replace the Postcode as a means of fixing a location ?

What is the postcode of Ben Nevis?

 

[colly]

That seems to be exactly it.. or, as mentioned upthread, a solution looking for a problem.

I don't see it like that. You can let someone know exactly where to find you or a place or anything, in any place with just 3 words. No map reference, no postcode,
no directions. It could be the middle of a moor or a forest or out at sea.
Sat navs will have this built in (or something like it)

I want to go to:

ahead.pages.basis.

No punching in post codes, no fiddling, just tell it.

 

[roadrash]

I must be really thick im just not understanding this at all, how a sat nav know what ahead.pages.basis. meant

 

[colly]

I must be really thick im just not understanding this at all, how a sat nav know what ahead.pages.basis. meant

haha It doesn't. Not yet anyway. It will need a system that has voice regcognition built in and a program to enable it to use the 'What3Words' information.

It's the future innit?

A company could have it included on documents and websites etc as part of their address.

Tell the taxi to meet you at : 'whatever. here. there.' and they will know which corner you will be on or whereabouts you are out in the sicks, Same for ambulances etc , injured party is at.... and they know exactly where they are.

 

[Mike_P]

So as far as I can see - the idea is to use these 3 slightly cryptic 3 word codes to replace the Postcode as a means of fixing a location ?

Postcodes can cover a huge area - the app was featured on Look North (Yorkshire) last night as a way of informing the emergency services of your exact location. Works off GPS so it presumably generates the words from the GPS co-ordinates. Seems to me to be an obvious addition to any cyclists/hikers/walkers phone hopefully never to be used in anger.

 

[Deleted member 26715]

Postcodes can cover a huge area

Are you sure you're not thinking of Zip Codes, can't remember the exact number now but there is an upper limit to the number of properties in a postcode & it's not that large

 

[twentysix by twentyfive]

Navigate the world by three words

Scafell Pike, UK - https://w3w.co/attends.untrained.booklet

Visit https://map.what3words.com to select a location, share the three word addess and location here

Mornington Crescent

 

[flake99please]

Think of it as three random words for a grid reference anywhere in the world.

I haven’t checked, but wonder where in the world I would be at if I were at whiskey/tango/foxtrot.

Edit just checked.... No exact match, but there are 3 near matches.

Handy for emergency services or armed forces to pinpoint a precise location for rescue or military action.

 

[Mike_P]

Are you sure you're not thinking of Zip Codes, can't remember the exact number now but there is an upper limit to the number of properties in a postcode & it's not that large

They can be quite extensive in rural areas.

 

[Markymark]

London farking London.

 

[DaveReading]

If only there was, say, a pair of numbers that together would identify any place on the earth's surface.

 

[Markymark]

If only there was, say, a pair of numbers that together would identify any place on the earth's surface.

Or better still a 3 number system for the 3D coordinates from the centre of the universe. I’m sat here at 0,0,0.

 

[Ming the Merciless]

Or better still a 3 number system for the 3D coordinates from the centre of the universe. I’m sat here at 0,0,0.

You want to be at 118,118,118 it's where it's happening baby...

 

[Deleted member 26715]

You want to be at 118,118,118 it's where it's happening baby...

Only £4.50 a minute

 

[Skanker]

I’m never moving my boat again!
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