A new method for communicating location data

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Thu, 08/11/2016 - 09:21

WU2S

From an article in the New York Times about providing postal services to nomadic Mongol citizens.

What3Words - use three distinct words to convey location data instead of street addresses or latitude/ longitude.

This approach may work well in stressful responses in unpopulated areas.

Fri, 08/12/2016 - 10:01

kg9dw

The What3Words approach will

The What3Words approach will sound like gibberish to everyone until it becomes mainstream. There is a very wide adoption chasm to cross.

Fri, 08/12/2016 - 10:41

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w6abj

while the What3Word sounds

while the What3Word sounds like a great idea, but you would have to have a piece of software or lookup table, Where Madenhead is a world standard and we use it already, and if you use the extended squares or the 7&8 place you can get the location down to a retaliative small area.

Fri, 08/12/2016 - 10:52

N8NQH

sounds easy enough

three distinct words to convey location

"I......... am........ here"

Fri, 08/12/2016 - 11:09

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w6abj

exactly

Fri, 08/12/2016 - 11:39

KD2EVR

Interesting idea. We started

Interesting idea. We started using numbers to identify things because names can might be duplicated or ambiguous. Then we assign new names to those numbers because the numbers are hard to remember, but this time they are unique names...

If they were smart they would start charging people to register their own "vanity names" for places.

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