What3words
I don't think the club uses the What3words location in the site notes but I reckon it would be a great addition if they did.
Does anyone use this to make quick notes and to tell friends where to meet up?
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Yup I do, I use it as much as possible. Even Amazon uses it when I’m not in😊. You could use W3W yourself to get to the front door of anywhere in the world including C&MC sites👍🏻😊
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It’s a great system👍🏻. I don’t know why anyone or any business wouldn't use it.
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If anything can make your life easier it’s W3W, no room for mistakes. . .Bosh👍🏻
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We use it for emergencies. It’s 21st C technology, Club hasn’t get there yet......
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You just need to understand what it’s for JV, it’s not a dictionary or a word puzzle🤣🤣🤣
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W3W is a closed product. It is a for-profit company masquerading as an open standard!
The algorithm used to generate the words is proprietary. You are not allowed to see it. You cannot find out your location without asking W3W for permission. If you want permission, you have to agree to some pretty long terms and conditions. And understand their privacy policy. Oh, and an API agreement. And then make sure you don’t infringe their patents.
You cannot store locations. You have to let them analyse the locations you look up. Want to use more than 10,000 addresses? Contact them for prices!
We can reference any point on the surface of Earth using two co-ordinates, Longitude and Latitude.
Long/Lat are numbers. They can be as precise or as vague as needed. Numbers are fairly universal. Lots of countries use 0-9. English words are not universal. How does W3W deal with this?1 -
The compass app on the iPhone gives lat and long
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I think some of the CL's use it, I believe there was a post about it a few months ago. It's a very clever concept, particularly in an emergency situation. A lot easier to say three words and have them understood on a poor phone line, than to give lat/long or NG coordinates.
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