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What3words

To: Maris Lauva <>
Subject: What3words
From: Carl Clifford <>
Date: Thu, 24 Sep 2015 02:58:40 +0000
Perplexed,

A GPS would be of no use with What3words. What you need is a smart phone or 
computer.

I suggest you read this info http://what3words.com/about/   and all will become 
clear, well, at least it did for me.

Carl Clifford



> On 23 Sep 2015, at 9:27 PM, Maris Lauva <> wrote:
>
> What I can't figure is how you can find out your, or any other address 
> without access to a GPS. And if you know an "word3" address how can you find 
> it without a GPS. And if you have a GPS, why bother?
>
> Perplexed
>
>> From: 
>> Date: Wed, 23 Sep 2015 20:17:51 +1000
>> To: 
>> Subject: Re: [Birding-Aus] What3words
>> CC: 
>>
>> Martin,
>> Well actually think.pretty.common is not in a less developoed country, its 
>> in Arkansas, USA :-p
>> https://map.what3words.com/think.pretty.common 
>> <https://map.what3words.com/think.pretty.common>
>>
>> Neat App though. Would be very useful in Japan too.
>>
>> Chris Charles
>> +61412911184
>>
>> Licole Monopods
>> http://www.licole.com.au <http://www.licole.com.au/>
>>> On 23 Sep 2015, at 6:34 pm, Martin Butterfield <> wrote:
>>>
>>> The postal systems will probably continue as they have developed.  What
>>> follows is I think pretty common in less developed countries.
>>>
>>> ...
>>>
>>> Martin
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