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Here’s how three simple words [Phone App] could save your life
KTLA ^
| Apr 25, 2022 /
| Rich DeMuro
Posted on 04/25/2022 10:17:50 PM PDT by BenLurkin
what3words can help.
It’s a free app that lets you pinpoint your location using a combination of three unique words.
“We’ve divided the world up into 57 trillion 10 foot by 10-foot squares and then we’ve allocated each one of those squares a unique 3 word identifier,” said Giles Rhys Jones, Chief Marketing Officer for what3words.
Because the system is so precise, instead of a broad street address, you could direct someone to the exact entrance to a large building, or the precise place you’re tailgating in a giant stadium parking lot.
what3words’ iOS and Android apps work offline, without a cellular connection.
LAFD is partnering with what3words to help locate everything from emerging fires to lost hikers faster and with more precision. They’ve integrated the what3words location system directly into their 911 call centers.
Keep in mind, if you send someone a link to your three words using the what3words app, they don’t even need the app installed to navigate right to you. The web link works with popular mapping apps to convert the three words into GPS coordinates they understand.
(Excerpt) Read more at ktla.com ...
TOPICS: Computers/Internet; Weird Stuff
KEYWORDS: davesnothere; what3words
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posted on
04/25/2022 10:17:50 PM PDT
by
BenLurkin
To: BenLurkin
Let me understand
So effing screwed
Find me anywhere?
Believe that, yeah!
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posted on
04/25/2022 10:27:45 PM PDT
by
drSteve78
(Je suis Deplorable STILL)
To: BenLurkin
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posted on
04/25/2022 10:31:34 PM PDT
by
UnwashedPeasant
(The pandemic we suffer from is not COVID. It is Marxist Democrat Leftism.)
To: BenLurkin
One of the three words could be supercalifragalisticexpialidocious.
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posted on
04/25/2022 10:32:24 PM PDT
by
glorgau
To: drSteve78
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posted on
04/25/2022 10:32:54 PM PDT
by
max americana
(fired leftards on cue after every election since 1992, and enjoyed seeing these bastards cry)
To: BenLurkin
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posted on
04/25/2022 10:35:37 PM PDT
by
broken_clock
(Go Trump! Still praying.)
To: BenLurkin
Phone apes?
That like a Trunk monkey, or something?
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posted on
04/25/2022 10:50:19 PM PDT
by
doorgunner69
(Let's go Brandon)
To: BenLurkin
I wonder where I’d be if I were an incongruent onomatopoeia salmonoid.
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posted on
04/25/2022 10:51:22 PM PDT
by
jy8z
To: doorgunner69
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posted on
04/25/2022 11:01:39 PM PDT
by
drSteve78
(Je suis Deplorable STILL)
To: BenLurkin
Or a 4 decimal GPS gets you within about 10 feet.
Go to messages and send location.
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posted on
04/25/2022 11:05:04 PM PDT
by
Do_Tar
(It took all my interest just to post this.)
To: BenLurkin
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posted on
04/25/2022 11:21:09 PM PDT
by
Born in 1950
(Anti left, nothing else.)
To: BenLurkin
“Wear Your Mask”
“Pull It Up”
“Over Your Nose”
“Go Screw Yourself”
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posted on
04/25/2022 11:23:47 PM PDT
by
ProtectOurFreedom
(Instead of criminalizing guns, we need to criminalize criminals.)
To: BenLurkin
Remember, where ever you go...there you are.
Maya Angelou
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posted on
04/25/2022 11:27:59 PM PDT
by
ComputerGuy
(Heavily-medicated for your protection)
To: BenLurkin
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posted on
04/25/2022 11:55:32 PM PDT
by
AlaskaErik
(In time of peace, prepare for war.)
To: BenLurkin
How would the three words be unique to a person living in a multistoried building on a spot?
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posted on
04/26/2022 1:02:02 AM PDT
by
Jyotishi
(Seeking the truth, a fact at a time.)
To: BenLurkin
Location Location Location
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posted on
04/26/2022 1:05:35 AM PDT
by
Ahithophel
(Communication is an art form susceptible to sudden technical failure)
To: UnwashedPeasant
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posted on
04/26/2022 1:15:08 AM PDT
by
HKMk23
(https://youtu.be/LTseTg48568)
To: BenLurkin
Lets go Brandon. Is that the white house bathroom?
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posted on
04/26/2022 1:30:47 AM PDT
by
Freedom_Is_Not_Free
(America -- July 4, 1776 to November 3, 2020 -- R.I.P.)
To: BenLurkin
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posted on
04/26/2022 1:36:59 AM PDT
by
Libloather
(Why do climate change hoax deniers live in mansions on the beach?)
To: drSteve78
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