Silly Friday fun...
I found out about this British startup due to Mercedes wanting to integrate What3Words into their next generation SatNav's.
For those that don't know, W3W divides the entire worlds surface up into a grid of 3x3m squares, and a unique combination of 3 random words have been assigned to each. The concept being that it can be used for very accurate navigation. Of course, there will be cases where traditional methods of identifying locations will be required, but I think it's a super concept. I live in the only house on my street without a number, set back from the road. Couriers can never find us. With this, I could just say please deliver to scraping.scrap.emporium (not my real location unfortunately), and they'll never struggle again to find me.
Edit: ah damnit, scraping.scrap.emporium actually exists in Canada! It is a pity that you can't request certain combinations, but they say that the system is available in offline versions, so it is fixed and can never change.
Silly thread really, but I'd be amused to see what amusing retro related 3 word places you can come up with and where they are... Bonus points for relevant, inappropriate or amusing locations.
retro.rides.gathering actually exists in the San Benito mountain range in California!
map.what3words.com/retro.rides.gathering
map.what3words.com/retro.rides.weekend - middle of Australia
map.what3words.com/retro.rides.life - near San Antonio
map.what3words.com/orange.cars.rule - southern Russia
map.what3words.com/beige.best.avoided - tip of northern Australia
map.what3words.com/cars.broken.again - right next to a high school in long island. Dodgy.
map.what3words.com/retro.cars.forever - They will be deep in the New Mexico desert!
map.what3words.com/entangled.wire.mess - washed up on a beach, northern Ecuador
map.what3words.com/lower.always.better - An inappropriately hilly bit somewhere in Wyoming
map.what3words.com/dropped.beige.metro - middle of nowhere, Quebec. Probably the best place for it.
Just go here and type in the search in the middle:
map.what3words.com/
I really hope this idea takes off. Would certainly like it to be integrated in mainstream Navi software.
I found out about this British startup due to Mercedes wanting to integrate What3Words into their next generation SatNav's.
For those that don't know, W3W divides the entire worlds surface up into a grid of 3x3m squares, and a unique combination of 3 random words have been assigned to each. The concept being that it can be used for very accurate navigation. Of course, there will be cases where traditional methods of identifying locations will be required, but I think it's a super concept. I live in the only house on my street without a number, set back from the road. Couriers can never find us. With this, I could just say please deliver to scraping.scrap.emporium (not my real location unfortunately), and they'll never struggle again to find me.
Edit: ah damnit, scraping.scrap.emporium actually exists in Canada! It is a pity that you can't request certain combinations, but they say that the system is available in offline versions, so it is fixed and can never change.
Silly thread really, but I'd be amused to see what amusing retro related 3 word places you can come up with and where they are... Bonus points for relevant, inappropriate or amusing locations.
retro.rides.gathering actually exists in the San Benito mountain range in California!
map.what3words.com/retro.rides.gathering
map.what3words.com/retro.rides.weekend - middle of Australia
map.what3words.com/retro.rides.life - near San Antonio
map.what3words.com/orange.cars.rule - southern Russia
map.what3words.com/beige.best.avoided - tip of northern Australia
map.what3words.com/cars.broken.again - right next to a high school in long island. Dodgy.
map.what3words.com/retro.cars.forever - They will be deep in the New Mexico desert!
map.what3words.com/entangled.wire.mess - washed up on a beach, northern Ecuador
map.what3words.com/lower.always.better - An inappropriately hilly bit somewhere in Wyoming
map.what3words.com/dropped.beige.metro - middle of nowhere, Quebec. Probably the best place for it.
Just go here and type in the search in the middle:
map.what3words.com/
I really hope this idea takes off. Would certainly like it to be integrated in mainstream Navi software.
