What 3 words
- Thread starter firebobby
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Liverpool
It's been around a few years.
It's just a system for making locations easier to remember/share - as long as you've got access to the system that created it in the first place. But then if you have access to the internet you'll probably have no trouble finding it with a postcode/address/coords in the first place.
Much easier to tell a friend to meet at gusto.shrouded.suggestions than 1°49'38.9"S+58°58'27.8"W or -51.827477,-58.9754943,18 - assuming you can't write/record it anywhere.
Although actually trying to find a place when you've got no internet access may be difficult as you won't know where gusto.shrouded.suggestions is - but any map (paper or electronic) can be used with the coords.
My mate is moving to a new house in rural Cornwall, and the postcode gives a location about a mile away, so we had to put his new address into the satnav via coordinates.
It's just a system for making locations easier to remember/share - as long as you've got access to the system that created it in the first place. But then if you have access to the internet you'll probably have no trouble finding it with a postcode/address/coords in the first place.
Much easier to tell a friend to meet at gusto.shrouded.suggestions than 1°49'38.9"S+58°58'27.8"W or -51.827477,-58.9754943,18 - assuming you can't write/record it anywhere.
Although actually trying to find a place when you've got no internet access may be difficult as you won't know where gusto.shrouded.suggestions is - but any map (paper or electronic) can be used with the coords.
My mate is moving to a new house in rural Cornwall, and the postcode gives a location about a mile away, so we had to put his new address into the satnav via coordinates.
what3words works offline as well as online. In the what3words app it offers a compass when the user is disconnected from the internet (the GPS still works from satellite geolocation). Also what3words comes as standard in the Navmii app (http://navmii.com) - the world's biggest offline navigation app. It has offline maps for the world and offline what3words for the world. You can click a point on the Navmii map to display the 3 word address and/or search for any 3 word address in the search bar. You just need to download the map for a particular country first. Disclaimer: I work for what3words.