| ▲ | Gathering6678 6 hours ago |
| It reminds me of what3words, using three words to describe any location on earth. I really hoped that could catch on. |
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| ▲ | wzdd 5 hours ago | parent | next [-] |
| Kind of like what3words, except what3words uses three words which you stand a chance of remembering, whereas this produced, for an address similar to mine, "Miniature nerves eulogize gaily inside erect lion yet able stables hiss the conclusive consultation." |
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| ▲ | katbyte 5 hours ago | parent | prev [-] |
| what3words Is terrible and search and rescue teams are actively against people using it. |
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| ▲ | Gathering6678 5 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | Care to elaborate why? I'm just curious since I didn't know (1) there was actually any kind of serious usage, or (2) there was pushback from rescue team... | | |
| ▲ | ianburrell 3 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | One reason is that there are a lot of similar words in the dictionary. It is easy to mishear the wrong location especially when they are close together. Some of the words are long and complicated. Another is that they are random which means can't navigate from the codes. They are missing feature of some codes that can have variable length for variable precision. | |
| ▲ | ryankrage77 5 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | W3W is very aggressive about protecting their IP, they don't want it to be a standard anyone can use like lat/long. They advertise it as being useful for search/rescue as you can provide a precise location over an unclear voice channel. They conveniently ignore that speaking numbers is clearer than speaking random words. I'm sure there's more I'm unaware of. |
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| ▲ | iso1631 an hour ago | parent | prev [-] | | > what3words Is terrible Yes > search and rescue teams are actively against people using it. Sadly no https://media.neas.nhs.uk/news/3-words-can-save-lives |
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