What3words - easy way to remember a specific location

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What3words - easy way to remember a specific location

Postby LandSailor » Thu 04 Jul, 2013 3:18 pm

Nice idea for remembering locations. 3 random words to identify any location on the planet. Beats trying to remember lat/long!

Address system 'what3words' can pinpoint any spot on Earth with a three word code.

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Re: What3words - easy way to remember a specific location

Postby ribuck » Thu 04 Jul, 2013 5:46 pm

I love the concept, but the names are fragile. For example if you type "fred.eat.noodles" instead of "fred.eats.noodles" you don't just end up in the next square, you end up anywhere in the world. Auto-correct is going to cause some embarrassing mistakes!
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Re: What3words - easy way to remember a specific location

Postby tastrax » Thu 04 Jul, 2013 9:14 pm

:D :D http://what3words.com/hype.spine.breed - that's right - full of it, have none of it and lets hope they dont :D :D
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Re: What3words - easy way to remember a specific location

Postby tastrax » Thu 04 Jul, 2013 9:23 pm

http://what3words.com/risks.propulsion.mention - and switch over to satellite view - where am I ?
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Re: What3words - easy way to remember a specific location

Postby LandSailor » Fri 05 Jul, 2013 12:15 pm

tastrax wrote:http://what3words.com/risks.propulsion.mention - and switch over to satellite view - where am I ?


Not having spent much time in Tassie cant see anything recognisable but granting.meditative.squeak seems vaguely accurate :D
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Re: What3words - easy way to remember a specific location

Postby tastrax » Fri 05 Jul, 2013 2:35 pm

http://what3words.com/risks.propulsion.mention is the composting toilet at Mt Anne.
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