What3words users need to read this...

[Nicho]

Rescuers question what3words' use in emergencies

Mountain Rescue in England and Wales shows the BBC dozens of wrong addresses it has been given.

www.bbc.co.uk

 

[Tim1023]

Yup, I read that too. Interestingly, What3Words started advertising here in Germany recently, so you can have your words served to you in multiple languages (about 40 by the look of their site).
Middle point of Hamburg is both preoccupied.entitled.woven in English and eule.genauere.bestückt (owl.more precise.equipped) in German
I also tried with the various forms of precise:
- Genau (precise)
- Genauer, genaue, genaues (precise, declined according to gender)
- Genauer (more precise)
- Genauerer, genauere, genaueres (more precise, declined according to gender)

They use all forms except for the declined forms in masculine and feminine (-er and -e) as these can sound the same and only use the feminine form. The other forms are much easier to distinguish acoustically.

So they seem to put some thought into the issue.

Having said that, they place the middle of Hamburg incorrectly, which, officially, is the centre of a particular room at the front of the town hall (between.grudge.printing)

 

[Nicho]

Middle point of Hamburg is both preoccupied.entitled.woven in English and eule.genauere.bestückt (owl.more precise.equipped) in German

I googled this and this is what it came up with:

 

[#lazy]

With anything a human will do there will be some human era involved , I’m pill bumma uzi shit !

 

[Tim1023]

I googled this and this is what it came up with:
View attachment 63304

That is indeed a very precisely equipped owl. Bravo!!

 

[RedThunder]

Anyone trying the Maidenhead Locator System like What3Words ?

Mmm...

What3Words sent a legal threat to a security researcher for sharing an open-source alternative | TechCrunch

But the company can't point to a single case of copyright infringement.

techcrunch.com

 

[#lazy]

Yes and it works , done listen to the peeps who diss it , they just can’t spell !

 

[#lazy]

Yes and it works , done listen to the peeps who diss it , they just can’t spell !

Or read no I haven’t tried it

 

[Dave 80]

Another interesting read...

Why bother with What Three Words?

I'll be wording this post carefully as What 3 Words (W3W) have a tenacious PR team and, probably, have a lot more lawyers than I do. W3W is a closed product. It is a for-profit company masquerading as an open standard. And that annoys me. A brief primer. The world is a sphere. We can reference...

shkspr.mobi

 

[Dave 80]

Long and Lat works fine. Google Plus Code seems OK and is Open Source.