Getting there in three words
How to explain exact meeting point in three words? Literally.
This is not a puzzle from popular Russian TV quiz ?Что, Где, Когда??And not a rhetorical figure to the idiom ?go somewhere?.
With What3Words service&app geolocation takes on a new meaning.
The Earth is divided into 3x3 m meter cells - each cell has a tag of three random words.
And that's all! Just spell three words, and I will come to where you are. I think it’s genius!
Now it is easy to share?any?geolocation - in a forest, a desert, a place without street address. And at sea, easy to find it. The app allows to?xport coordinates to Google and iOS maps?to build route.
As a sailor, I know stress of dictating parallels and meridians, particularly when under pressure.??Degrees minutes, seconds also come in different transcriptions. In "a man overboard" situation, a second counts, and here you are saying numbers on the air!?
Shout 3 words over the air. Rescue team and fellow sailors be able to determine your location.?In a critical situation is much more natural than reading multi-digit lines from a NAV device.
"Three-word navigation" in 35 languages is implemented by Mersedes-Benz in its cars. Companies place 3word IDs on their forms and websites.
What’s next? I vote for 3D to find a meeting room on a specific floor of business center