what3words

[malri_au]

not sure if others have heard of this new method of landbased plotting.

it could be quite handy in detecting.

https://map.what3words.com

 

[Jaros]

?

 

[malri_au]

it's the world divided into 1x1m grids,with 3 word designations for the grids.

 

[malri_au]

here's what i mean,this is the entrance to the opera house,down to the metre: https://map.what3words.com/verbs.jabs.track

 

[Northeast]

So in the opera house link it has verbs.jabs.track at the bottom. That is the 3 words thingy?

How do you search a position? Verbs narrows to 10 square kilometers, jabs narrows to a square kilometer, jabs narrows to the exact square metre?

How is it better than the current numbered coords system? Can they be a little bit 'secret code' so I can send you coords and no one else can work it out?

Thanks.

 

[Maldon Gold Centre]

So in the opera house link it has verbs.jabs.track at the bottom. That is the 3 words thingy?

The concept is that three words are easier to remember than a co-ordinate using numerics.

The same concept is applied to three or four word based passwords separated by hyphens which are as secure as multi mix character symbol number passwords but memorable.

 

[Northeast]

Ok, that makes sense.

But how is it then applied? For a particular point of reference do I allocate my own 3 words? james.monster.subgram for example. I was with James, using the monster and it was subgram. Makes sense to me if used in my mapping system.

Can I create my own account and create maps utilizing some sort of word code that only makes sense to me? Would help to keep things a bit more secure even if it got hacked off my 'puter.

Or is every metre X metre piece of land across the globe allocated 3 words and we all use the same. I'm thinking not but...?

 

[Northeast]

Scrap that question. It's all here https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/What3words

Preset words for 3X3 metre sections across the globe.

Have only just started reading so not sure if you can create own maps...yet

 

[malri_au]

it's got many real world uses,the most apparent being drone delivery to your door.

the gps chips in most devices are not up to 1x1m.

 

[malri_au]

there's an export to google option,not sure if a plug in is available yet,coding one could be interesting,i would have thought it's part of the bigger vision of it already though.