What Three Words

[tudorsailor]

Let's try it. My app gives a location of dash.piston.rated where does your app put that?

TS

 

[anoccasionalyachtsman]

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TS

Yes, it's the first one, spelt correctly! I chose it especially for @Zagato.

 

[Billows]

Google maps have Plus Codes 7 digits and you can easily show a route to get to it and every phone has Google maps

 

[chriss999]

My son found a mountain biker in the mist with a broken arm and a few other smashed up bits. Misty day, no visibility. W3W used. The paramedics came straight to them, no problem.

My daughter was cycling on a group ride over the hills, in bad weather. One came off on a descent and injured his leg, with l cold, shock etc. They called 999 who located them via W3W and the ambulance whizzed him off to hospital. Handy app for walkers/cyclists.
I’m not sure about use while boating.

 

[MystyBlue2]

I thought that app ran off ypur phones GPS location not wifi or internet connection?

 

[MystyBlue2]

My daughter was cycling on a group ride over the hills, in bad weather. One came off on a descent and injured his leg, with l cold, shock etc. They called 999 who located them via W3W and the ambulance whizzed him off to hospital. Handy app for walkers/cyclists.
I’m not sure about use while boating.

If you change the map layout to satellite layout and go over the sea...zoom in and you'll see a load of boxes, every box has a unique set of words, seems to work over the sea as much as it does land. I'll have to give it a try the next time im out.

 

[Hermit]

Quite a range of appreciation of W3W in this thread - goes from it being a just for profit, data grabbing yet useless app to as good as a PLB!

 

[Porthandbuoy]

W3W is an excellent idea, but there is a problem. Some of the words used are in the singular and plural, which can put you hundreds or even thousands of miles adrift if you mishear the sibilant. And does anyone fancy reciting three words of five, six, seven or more letters phonetically when calling the coastguard?
Saying that, I have it on my phone, as does my daughter who does a lot of hillwalking.
I’m also tempted to write W3W on a letter or parcel and see if it gets delivered.

 

[Mark-1]

I’m also tempted to write W3W on a letter or parcel and see if it gets delivered.

Genius idea. My guess is it would.

 

[colind3782]

I think I'll start putting the W3W code on the delivery instructions when ordering online, or perhaps as a line of the address?

123 Benefit Street
W3W hands.face.space
Mytown
XX1 2YY

 

[Black Sheep]

Genius idea. My guess is it would.

OK, try Royal.Gardens.Bath - it should get to China OK!

 

[Mark-1]

OK, try Royal.Gardens.Bath - it should get to China OK!

Nice work!

 

[TernVI]

OK, try Royal.Gardens.Bath - it should get to China OK!

To be fair that can happen with postcodes. PO1 4ND via Warsaw!

 

[Mark-1]

TernVI and Black Sheep win the internet today. ?

 

[TernVI]

W3W is an excellent idea, but there is a problem. Some of the words used are in the singular and plural, which can put you hundreds or even thousands of miles adrift if you mishear the sibilant. And does anyone fancy reciting three words of five, six, seven or more letters phonetically when calling the coastguard?
Saying that, I have it on my phone, as does my daughter who does a lot of hillwalking.
I’m also tempted to write W3W on a letter or parcel and see if it gets delivered.

By the time you've spelled out the first word phonetically, in even a 1 knot tide, you'll have drifted a few squares......

 

[scottie]

I managed to fall in our local park and when the ambulance crew had sorted me out asked them about W3W the driver said oh we don’t use that end of conversation
On reflection I don’t know whether the control room might use it but have another form for directing their crew?

 

[Iliade]

Could this have been because you were connected to wifi? Google maps still think I live in my old house miles away as I am using the same router. So in its database, the wifi address is still at the old location. If you turn off wifi does it locate you correctly?
Just a thought and a theory

TS

The opposite could have some bearing - there is wifi here, the incident was in a town where I had no wifi and my office had no wifi at the time.
Just checked and it still worked fine here with no wifi.

 

[Mark-1]

I managed to fall in our local park and when the ambulance crew had sorted me out asked them about W3W the driver said oh we don’t use that end of conversation
On reflection I don’t know whether the control room might use it but have another form for directing their crew?

I would guess that anyone doing a job involving 'finding places other people have communicated' would be able to use any halfway popular position format. Delivery drivers and Emergency services must regularly see everything from Lat/Long to postcode to "I'm near a big tree, I can see two other big trees.". They won't be phased by W3W.

 

[TernVI]

I would guess that anyone doing a job involving 'finding places other people have communicated' would be able to use any halfway popular position format. Delivery drivers and Emergency services must regularly see everything from Lat/Long to postcode to "I'm near a big tree, I can see two other big trees.". They won't be phased by W3W.

Reminds me of one of my Mum's friends who worked in an AA control room. A lot of funny stories along the lines of 'what can you see from the phone box?'
It's only ~30 years ago when GPS was a project in the lab.

 

[penberth3]

I think that is an issue with OS Paper maps. They are out of alignment (literally) with the world standards for position datums, and have been for decades (since WGS84). The UKHO has moved on, so should the OS

Disagree, the OSNG is the best possible grid for mapping Great Britain, a lot of thought went into it. Using Lat/Long on land would cause all sorts of problems, projection and distances for a start.