What 3 Words

[Biggles]

There is an astonishing new way of giving a location on the earth that is as accurate as GPS to 5 decimal places, perhaps moreso, as it describes the earth in boxes 3x3 metres. Our house block has 70 such addresses. I tried changing the order of the words in one box and it took me to the middle of Russia.
I hope the Chinese are happy using English words! Wuhan is ///windows.magma.slicer
Have a look at what3words

It's actually unbelievable. Who thinks up these things (and spends the time allocating all those words)? There is plenty of background info at the website. And, of course, there is an app.

 

[saphena]

Works beautifully and in Chinese as well as English and many other languages

 

[andcam]

It's been around for a while, a clever idea. Some emergency services encourage it's use in the UK.

 

[HACKLE]

Would have been interested to look at that site, but I can't it's not available. Sorry Biggles.

 

[Biggles]

Would have been interested to look at that site, but I can't it's not available. Sorry Biggles.

Try this: https://what3words.com/guard.cling.radio

That lands you in Sydney, but seems to be the only way to enter the website.

 

[Wolffy]

Very interesting. Thanks for sharing.

 

[kwaka]

In 3 words.... Bloody Covid Nineteen!
What a beauty eh?
It just keeps giving...

 

[Skidoo]

It can be a bit tricky with someone speaking English as a second language attempting to pronounce some words to the emergency operator.
Just above the 3 words on the ‘emergency app’ (Australia), the latitude and longitude is also listed and often easier to articulate than some of the words

Any tool that assists locating someone is certainly a bonus.

 

[ACTCapo]

Just cancelled my 10 day holiday to Queensland. Bloody Covid Nineteen

 

[Grey Gentry]

Just cancelled my 10 day holiday to Queensland

Sorry to hear that. I've 4 week riding tour to FNQ scheduled for August. Fingers crossed.