Your new address - What3Words

Discussion in 'General Discussion' started by Moons, Apr 30, 2020.

  1. Moons

    Moons Supporter

    Unsure if anyone has seen this - I suspect it's the future.

    Basically, it maps the entire planet in a grid of 3 meter squares - the physical location is then broken down in to 3 distinct words e.g. daring.lion.race

    So....rather than have a road, then a number and postcode, this gives a literal physical location......so no more trying to figure out where the hell 157 Upping Street is by driving along it slowly trying to find house numbers. I do think it's flawed for blocks of flats however.

    To identify your What3Words location, you can use this site https://gridreferencefinder.com/

    For us, as we are rural with no actual street name, it means deliveries and visitors (remember those!) can find the house easily - I suspect for campsites, hill walkers, mountain bikers etc. it will be a really good system.

    I'd imagine you can even locate people at festivals and VW shows, out at sea, in a football stadium etc.


    Have a play - do not publish your 3 words here unless you want the internet to know where you live.


    crown.logo.calms
     
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  2. Mine came up

    Absolutely Massive Bellend

    is this thing rigged?
     
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  3. Barry Haynes

    Barry Haynes I dance in leopard skin mankini’s

    It's working ok then:p
     
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  4. Moons

    Moons Supporter

    That’s the AI bit, reassuring it’s working
     
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  5. I’m told some areas emergency services are using it aswell now


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  6. I'm told "Ee Bah Gum" covers large areas of Yorkshire.
     
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