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This is a normal post W3W is a monumentally stupid idea...

(I helped save b3ta! Happosai _,,,,_(O ; o)_,,,, Thu 21 Oct 2021, 20:24, Reply)
This is a normal post Go on then, I’ll bite, why?

(I helped save b3ta! Prufrock Lucifer, son of the morning!, Thu 21 Oct 2021, 20:49, Reply)
This is a normal post 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

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 (I helped save b3ta! Happosai _,,,,_(O ; o)_,,,, Thu 21 Oct 2021, 21:11, Reply)
This is a normal post 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.
 (I helped save b3ta! tarka_dall Like normal dall, only a bit more spicy, Thu 21 Oct 2021, 21:17, Reply)
This is a normal post That's what I meant by my third point.

(I helped save b3ta! Happosai _,,,,_(O ; o)_,,,, Thu 21 Oct 2021, 21:41, Reply)
This is a normal post 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?
 (I helped save b3ta! Prufrock Lucifer, son of the morning!, Thu 21 Oct 2021, 22:46, Reply)
This is a normal post 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.
 (merkinhead poos sideways, Thu 21 Oct 2021, 23:15, Reply)
This is a normal post Yeah but
www.fourkingmaps.co.uk/
 (Funge Sat, Wed, Tue, Wed, Tue, Sat, Mon, Sun, Thu 21 Oct 2021, 23:19, Reply)
This is a normal post Glad that's still up

(merkinhead poos sideways, Fri 22 Oct 2021, 7:32, Reply)
This is a normal post 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?
 (merkinhead poos sideways, Thu 21 Oct 2021, 22:57, Reply)
This is a normal post 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.
 (I helped save b3ta! gaijintendo Regular Member, Thu 21 Oct 2021, 23:06, Reply)