Oddly appropriate What3Words addresses
I made this!
Been playing around with What3Words for a few years so I've collected a few of these now. Just made a new Twitter account for them, as well as for What3Words limericks, haiku, puzzles and other nonsense.
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Some of those are too good to be true.
I was really impressed by what3words when I first heard about it, but I felt that I really shouldn’t have been in this day and age, which made me feel old.
Edit: your w3w Twitter is ace.
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Prufrock Lucifer, son of the morning!, Thu 21 Oct 2021, 19:03,
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Top 3:
- The need to use their propriety database to find a location -- you're fucked if your favoured location app doesn't support it
- Adjacent locations bear no relation to each other
- If you've got GPS and mobile connection to be able to transmit your W3W location in an emergency, then just send your fucking lat/long coords
There are more...
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Happosai _,,,,_(O ; o)_,,,, Thu 21 Oct 2021, 21:11,
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Or install an emergency app that sends the coordinates for you
It could pick up the fact you've called the emergency services and do it automatically.
TBH I don't think that W3W is inherently a bad idea, I just think it's being touted as a global panacea without any regard for its limitations.
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tarka_dall Like normal dall, only a bit more spicy, Thu 21 Oct 2021, 21:17,
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Hmmm.
You’re overlooking the fact that w3w seems clever, easy to understand, and accessible to simpletons like me. Call it good marketing, whatever, it works as a means of supplying a very precise location quickly and easily. I’m sure there are better ways to do that, but will they cut through?
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Prufrock Lucifer, son of the morning!, Thu 21 Oct 2021, 22:46,
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Exactly this
..Whatever you think of their business practices, the three words idea is brilliant - simple, memorable and effective for communicating your precise location by voice, text or whatever.
(, Thu 21 Oct 2021, 23:15, Reply)
Yeah, but...
...my daughter tells me it's great for teenagers pinpointing woodland rendezvous points or secret stash drops. :) Srsly, my interest lies mainly in its wordplay potential. From a business perspective, I'd have loved them to have had a more enlightened, open-source perspective on how to build a geocoding company, but watchaganado?
(, Thu 21 Oct 2021, 22:57, Reply)
There are also numerous examples of phonetically similar locations in the same city
which supposedly they tried to engineer out of it - sod your ambulance or delivery guy could perfectly turn up at the wrong 3 meter square.
I think this thread was about squares where - if you add an s to any word it changes location to a nearby wrong place:
twitter.com/cybergibbons/status/1385906382692569088
There are loads of examples of it being obtuse.
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gaijintendo Regular Member, Thu 21 Oct 2021, 23:06,
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How much are they paying you?
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Jeffrey44 (User was banned for this post), Thu 21 Oct 2021, 20:42,
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its not a terrible idea, but I think it's utility is limited
it's based around a fading print paradigm that people will need to record or memorise something, like a long website names, or some three word phrase in this case, in order to use it. If something is communicated in digital format, which most things are exclusively these days, you don't actually need to expose this code to users, just give them a button or link to click on. A website name at least also functions as branding, or for search engine for people who only kind of remember it, but people aren't going to google trout.mask.replica in the hope of finding a location.
The main plus as I see it is dividing the world up into 1m grid or whatever it is has a certain user-friendliness to it being a scale humans can relate to, it's a clever idea, but any of the mapping companies could easily implement this and what3words don't own any of the mapping data, they just licence it
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cumquat may will not be commenting further on the allegations, Thu 21 Oct 2021, 23:16,
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Yo momma's so fat she uses What3000Words
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Mudface The web isn't callipygian, Fri 22 Oct 2021, 7:41,
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1st inaccuracy: Lovel telescope is a radio telescope.
We could discuss what does and doesn't constitute starlight, but come on.
The 2nd item on the list, scary unthinkable thud, does not appropriately describe the deployment of the nuclear bomb which was exploded 500m above Hiroshima.
Where in the world is 'global positioning system'?
Also why do people find this gimmick more useful than a map grid reference, which can be more accurate than 1m, if need be? How do w3w actually make money?
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brb man-child cuck corporate supplicant fuck, Fri 22 Oct 2021, 17:57,
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