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Old 09-01-2016, 20:15   #1
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Default What 3 Words

Anyone heard of this, or even use it ? It would appear that someone has electronically mapped the surface of the earth into 3x3m grid squares, and then used a bank of 25,000 unique words to identify each individual square using just three of them.

What's the point I hear you say, well my village has 11 houses, just 2 postcodes and most houses have no numbers which makes ad-hoc delivery quite difficult; yet one unique phrase identifies my front door :thumbup:

To achieve the same accuracy using Lat/Long requires a string of 16 numbers. Further, large parts of the world don't even have postcodes, numbers or even street names; but using this system a simple identifier can be generated and communicated for any point on the earth's surface.

I think it's very clever, have a look HERE
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