What3words
I know we have all come to 'love' the good old postcode but it occurs to me that some CLs might benefit from using the new what3words locator.
I stayed at a postcode last week with 3 CLs next to each other. W3W would really help.
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Here is a CL owners post put on a thread relating to finding CLs and the usefulness or otherwise of OS grid references in the SD book:-
"I suggested that the Club look at What3Words as a way of identifying the entrances of CLs, or even individual Pitches on Club sites back in 2018 in an email to the head of Sites and Head of Marketing.
I reminded them of this new service in an email top the CL team in 2019.
What3Words is a UK company but it has been adopted worldwide (even by the Mongolian Post Office) and by a number of hotels, car sat-nav companies and by many of the UK Emergency Services as a way of identifying an exact (3Mx3M square) location.
It has some drawbacks, but is becoming increasingly widely adopted and a number of CLs are now using it to guide visitors. Including mine.
Ted Howard-Jones
Farm Entrance Location
https://w3w.co/hounded.swinging.collapsed
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Curious, because I hadn't heard of I put in my home address, then tried my post code - but in both cases it says No result. That's what comes of living here out on the edge of the moor - we have no mobile phone signal either. A good job Richard our postman knows where we are.
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Strange EuroT. I have just had w3w map up, and it’s showing three words for some very remote areas (between Golitha Falls and Bolventor) and every little track I make up River Fowey shows three different words. Seems to work all over moor🤷♂️ Maybe you have to pinpoint your actual location on the w3w map, and use the words it gives there, rather than by address or postcode?
Although of course, if you have no phone signal, you are doomed!
I have put the three words for our home, and Mums home into my phone as a reminder. Our words change if we move into our front room, from the back room, so it’s spot on accuracy. Hope I never have to use them.
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You are right. I cracked it.
Knowing exactly where we are I can pinpoint my house using their map and get the crucial three words - but a delivery man from DHL, Yodel, Hermes and all tne others, who doesn't know exactly where we are would only have our address and post code to go by - and couldn't use this method of locating us on a map to find the crucial three words. So do I have to give them the words when I order something?
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Lofts.executive.doghouse
check that out, a wee bit more than ‘edge of the moor’👍🏻
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No phone signal needed it can be used on the emergency system it’s what makes it genius. It has & will continue to save life, it’s why the emergency services around the world are adopting it.
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Not so WN, I found the W3W for ‘Brigholme Farm CL, Gigglewick’ mentioned in the CL section of CT.
try-smile.lungs.storeroom I’ve chosen a space to set up. From your home to the parking spot. As I said-genius👍🏻
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John, check out W3W on YouTube they have a number of tutorials on how to use it, they are only a couple of minutes long & are very easy to follow. W3W syncs with a number of satnavs/apps to make it easier to navigate from A to B plus it can be switched to google earth too👍🏻
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You’re welcome👍🏻, anything that makes us safer & helps us needs supporting👏🏻
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I think that is it’s prime function to be honest, as an emergency location tool.
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I disagree TDA, it leads us to an exact(10ft sq) rather than a fuzzy area when no exact address is available. A mate did a hike in Dalby Forest off piste, he sent me the W3W for the walk & the W3W for parking, excellent👍🏻
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Just tried to locate a CL on an ordnance survey map and found it very difficult from the description given on the web pages for the that CL. Post Codes can cover vast areas. I don't particularly like W3W, I would prefer it if people could learn to use the OS grid reference system (a ten figure GR is the same 1m^2 accuracy as W3W), but since W3W seems to be becoming ubiquitous ........?
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I could give the emergency services the three words to find me and I am sure they would…but whether an ordinary Club member towing the latest 8 ft wide caravan would be best advised to come here on the direct route from Liskeard is another matter. The handbook is full of sites saying Don’t follow sat nav. Should they also warn about W3W?
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Is it ubiquitous? You surprise me. It certainly hasn't become so to me.
Only the other day I saw an advert and it included its location in What3Words and it occurred to me how long it had been since I had seen it. There was a revival of interest a year or so ago and a couple of people mentioned it to me as if it was something new, because they'd only just heard of it; but it's been around a long time now and it feels very slow to me to catch on and come into widespread use.
Perhaps I just don't look in the right places; that could easily be it.
Or perhaps, as so often happens, I shall now encounter it several times every day.
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I talk to many using W3W as a travel destination guide. Younger folk seem well into it & quick to use it. Older folk are slower to interest or convince to use. For many they’ve grown up with lon/lat & are loathe to try anything new. Not all but many which is a great pity🤷🏻♂️
PS-it’s been around for 10yrs, not long in the big scheme.
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A lot more CLs are choosing to use W3W. Particularly those who are part of the CL owners network👍
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In the site directory all the CLs have their OS grid reference printed, thankfully, after them having been omitted in the previous edition. They are also listed on the relevant page on the club's web site.
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👍 yes, we like map references as well. Handy if like us, you love OS maps😁
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