Sounds like garbage to me. Go past the Indian Crow, count along five
Sparrows, and there's your camel posing as a letterbox.
-----Original Message-----
From: Birding-Aus On Behalf Of
Peter Shute
Sent: Thursday, 24 September 2015 8:06 AM
To: 'Carl Clifford'
Cc:
Subject: What3words
I think the 3rd world would be where it's least useful, Carl. It's a system
that requires that you speak the same language as the person providing the
coordinates, that you can spell, and that you have an appropriate device
that's charged up and contains a proprietary database. I.e access to the
system is probably denied to most of the people it's claimed it's designed
for.
For those who do have the knowledge and equipment to use it, I suspect it
would lose its attraction as soon as you have more than two or three of them
to try to remember. Then you'd realise you have to write them down, and
you're no better off than with numeric coordinates. Get just one letter
wrong, and it just tells you that it's invalid.
For centuries cartographers have sought systems that allow easy calculation
of the bearing and distance between two points. I doubt they'd be impressed
with this one that prevents you even having a guess at the relationship of
two coordinates that are just 3m apart.
I think this system is worse than useless. I can't understand why anyone
would even consider adopting it, and the only reason I can think of for
anyone to invent it is to force people to buy their database.
Peter Shute
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Carl Clifford
> Sent: Wednesday, 23 September 2015 10:16 PM
> To: Peter Shute
> Cc: Steve Clark;
> Subject: Re: [Birding-Aus] What3words
>
> Peter,
>
> It was developed to provide accurate addresses for people in 3rd world
> countries. Military targeting tech is somewhat more accurate than
> Whar3words, to the extent that it is possible to put a cruise missile
> through your front window, provided that the GIGO law is followed.
>
> Carl Clifford
>
> > On 23 Sep 2015, at 7:10 PM, Peter Shute <> wrote:
> >
> > Steve, after a quick read about it, I think it's better
> suited to a military coding system, provided one doesn't mind bombing
> the wrong country every now and again.
> >
> > Peter Shute
> >
> > Sent from my iPad
> >
> >> On 23 Sep 2015, at 4:10 PM, Steve Clark
> <> wrote:
> >>
> >> G'day all
> >>
> >> I just heard about this new app called what3words that
> divides the globe up into 57 trillion 3m x 3m squares and converts the
> lat and long to a unique 3 word code.
> >>
> >> It was designed for the huge proportion of the world's
> population without any address system.
> >>
> >> My home address is labs.assemble.rollers
> >>
> >> So all I need to do is tell you that and you can navigate
> to my door. Not particularly useful given I have a proper address but
> brilliant for third world countries and I reckon it would be good for
> birding.
> >>
> >> Check it out and share your thoughts.
> >> iOS and Android
> >>
> >> Cheers
> >> Steve Clark
> >> Hamilton, Vic
> >>
> >>
> >> Sent from my iPod
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