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 ...
One word plastics
had I only
Go pound Sand
Free Beer Tomorrow
That brings you to the outhouse
Think the Robot Chicken: Star Wars skit with Emperor Palapatine on the escalator.
Warning if you do a search: NSFW. Bigly.
Thought that was the Brady’s dad.
You’re probably right. I thought it was angelou or one of my teenage daughters.
I have to memorize 57 trillion 3-weird combos?
I’m good up to about 38 trillion...then things start getting fuzzy.
“I’m in Pocatello”
“Importantly, what3words’ iOS and Android apps work offline, without a cellular connection.”
How then? How do you let someone know where you are if it has no connection? 5G satellite tracking that was just a conspiracy theory? Even wikipedia does not say how it makes a connection.
It is a false statement... It does not work without a connection.
“To know and share your 3-word location, you need access to a smartphone that also needs GPS and an internet connection, which aren’t readily available, especially for people in poor and rural areas.”
https://www.makeuseof.com/how-does-what3words-work/
Or, the tamer version from 'F Troop'; "We're (where) the Heckawi"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WYkUNuMD8pc
That takes you to the oval office
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