What three words (1 Viewer)

[Richard n Ann]

I thought it was a good idea at first but i came across Google Maps 'Pluscodes' the other day, seems like they work very similar. I dropped a virtual pin in a field and it gave a code. It will navigate you to it (the last bit on foot of course) perhaps not quite so easy to remember though

 

[Richard n Ann]

Share works too, all the usual options, WhatsApp, Gmail, messenger, text, Facebook and copy to clipboard

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Near England

53°10'22.6"N 1°18'50.6"W · Chesterfield

Chesterfield

maps.app.goo.gl

 

[pampam]

Ive never heard of this but will try and download it,it will be good when lockdowns over and we are amongst crowds again, like shows or carboots or concerts, where you need to meet up, or having a walk around a town when on holiday and you both like to look at different things

 

[Revolvor]

GPS for civilian use is deliberately downgraded.
Also the height/depth feature is disabled.

W3W uses triangulation between mobile phone masts
Hence in urban areas (or festival sites, for which it was invented) it is accurate to within 3m.

It uses GPS, not a mobile signal. It will also work in a more limited way without any mobile signal.

 

[Vipar]

I use it to find my car when shopping at Bluewater.

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[XxAnthxX]

I use it to find my car when shopping at Bluewater.

Hmmmm.....that would rely on your car still being where you left it

 

[maz]

I love this app! I was wondering where the broad sunlit uplands were ....... and now I know.

 

[Grummyb]

I used to say sat nav was shit and it would never catch on so to a you lot who are knocking it let's come back and talk about it again in Jan 2019

 

[BlackIce]

Not actually used it but have the app on my phone as I do at lot of off road cycling and fell walking. I have heard lots of good stories of the emergency services finding people in the middle of nowhere and seems to be widely used.

 

[XxAnthxX]

let's come back and talk about it again in Jan 2019

I use W3W on my phone and my sat nav when out and about in my motorhome, but unfortunately neither is compatible with my TARDIS....

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[emjaiuk]

I use W3W on my phone and my sat nav when out and about in my motorhome, but unfortunately neither is compatible with my TARDIS....

But surely it would be most useful for finding things inside your Tardis

 

[Grummyb]

I've seen a tardis from the outside and there tiny you could never loose anything in 1 of them

 

[Langtoftlad]

I like the idea of what3words, and have it installed.
However a question. If W3W is accurate to within a 3 meter square, are navigation systems such as Google, TomTom etc. capable of navigating with the same accuracy. I was always under the impression that although military GPS was highly accurate, civilian GPS was deliberately downgraded.

It used to be, but they turned off the 'wobble'.
Now, if your device can 'see' enough satellites accuracy can be 1 metre

 

[Andacami]

Ooerr!

 

[Janine]

Ooerr!

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I thought it must be a typo but no ........

National Poo Museum - Wikipedia

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[Tombola]

Btw you have both got to have smart phones with a signal and the app installed.

not true

 

[Tombola]

I thought it must be a typo but no ........

National Poo Museum - Wikipedia

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Ive been, dont bother

it's a load of shit

 

[NoName]

Being in France I just tried liberté.égalité.fraternité. Gobsmackingly, that location is not in France, it is in Brazil.

Perhaps they are trying to tell you something

 

[Vipar]

You have to be bored to go to the poo museum, cheaper to watch the BBC just as boring

 

[XxAnthxX]

You have to be bored to go to the poo museum, cheaper to watch the BBC just as boring

And the same content.......

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[LesW]

It hepled this lady.

Woman stuck in bog on uninhabited island for hours

Injured hiker was terrified and exhausted when she was rescued after using three-word code.

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[XxAnthxX]

Pah.....with a good book, I could do that in the bog, easy!

 

[LeonC]

Hmm, apparently ///orange.megalomaniac.gone is the White House...

 

[Coolcats]

Pah.....with a good book, I could do that in the bog, easy!

Probably not but GPS will do the same, interestingly she struggled for a phone signal. in which case if you do not have a phone signal both W3W and GPS will be like a chocolate tea pot. A PLB is the way to go

 

[Skez]

Maybe this could be the very last time? Please, pretty please

As you have asked so nicely Janine

Oh, Hello - Again!!! Persistent if nothing else

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[Janine]

Oh, Hello - Again!!! Persistent if nothing else

Don't poke the bear!

 

[Coolcats]

Oh, Hello - Again!!! Persistent if nothing else

Oh no just pointing out if no phone signal the only thing that will help is a PLB.

 

[Coolcats]

Don't poke the bear!

Janine im not even Grumpy let alone a Bear

 

[Zoobec]

Probably not but GPS will do the same, interestingly she struggled for a phone signal. in which case if you do not have a phone signal both W3W and GPS will be like a chocolate tea pot. A PLB is the way to go

I didn’t have phone signal but managed to use W3W and used my phone to make the 999 call. My number didn’t show up for the 999 operator as I wasn’t using the normal network.