What3words November 13, 2017, 09:16:11 pm Anyone using this?what3words | Addressing the worldIt's sort of a replacement for GPS locations. The app allows you to pinpoint your location down to a 3 meter square which then creates a 3 word address This 3 word address can then be shared or used in a mapping tool like Navmii.for example, my current location is watched.clearly.nets. You can go to their map and type it in to find my location exactly.https://map.what3words.com/watched.clearly.netsNavmii is a turn-by turn map app that can use the what3words info.What's nice is that it eliminates using GPS numbers and locations for those who either don't know how to determine theirs at the moment or navigate to a location if you have the numbers.
Re: What3words Reply #1 – November 14, 2017, 04:35:26 pm Clever idea. But it appears to be wholly dependent upon the What3Words website doing lookup for you, translating the three-word strings back to latitude and longitude coordinates. If the website goes down due to server problems or a DDoS attack, or if the company goes out of business, all those nifty three-word codes instantly become unusable - poof!Now granted, I've used TinyURL in the past, and it has the same vulnerabilities. But links to websites go bad eventually anyway, so even if TinyURL is still online ten or twenty years from now, most of those links will probably not work. But lat/lon coordinates don't "go bad," and a location posted that way today will still be valid a hundred years from now (although it may have turned into a soyaburger stand by then). It's not likely that What3Words, or any internet-based lookup service, will be around in twenty years, let alone a hundred. And when it fails, all the codes go dead--just like in those movies where the hero blows up the master control station and all the robots suddenly freeze in place.Just my two cents' worth. :-) 2 Likes
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