What Three Words
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It has two navigation systems.
It uses Google Maps for road navigation to the nearest off road point.
Then switch to [navigate] [compass] and it will point to the reference and indicate the distance.
I’ve taken my grandchildren into Wyre Forest and got “lost”. I’ve then told them to find their way back to the cafe.
Good for meet ups and rescues off road as well as festivals and even busy town centres.
Is being installed into a lot of new car Nav systems too.
I have worked in sub-Saharan Africa where it gives people an address in a sprawling plastic and corrugated iron township or in the rows of thousands of identical blue tarpaulin shelters in refugee camps.
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WARNING:
If you are new to W3W and trying it out don’t post your home reference here or anywhere else on line where you wouldn’t post personal information!!!!!
It uses Google Maps for road navigation to the nearest off road point.
Then switch to [navigate] [compass] and it will point to the reference and indicate the distance.
I’ve taken my grandchildren into Wyre Forest and got “lost”. I’ve then told them to find their way back to the cafe.
Good for meet ups and rescues off road as well as festivals and even busy town centres.
Is being installed into a lot of new car Nav systems too.
I have worked in sub-Saharan Africa where it gives people an address in a sprawling plastic and corrugated iron township or in the rows of thousands of identical blue tarpaulin shelters in refugee camps.
pee ess:
WARNING:
If you are new to W3W and trying it out don’t post your home reference here or anywhere else on line where you wouldn’t post personal information!!!!!
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Is there a known problem with what3words via a browser? I've had to contact the council about some trees across the road and when you provide the three words the web site offers a preview of a completely different location. If you press enter on the search it does take you to the correct location but the council couldn't cope with this and kept telling me the wrong location.
The problem with using it in a web browser is that the browser is not using your GPS location, it is using the location based on your IP address, which will show the location of your nearest internet exchange or sometimes even a datacentre.
The app itself uses GPS, whereas your browser location usually does not.
I don't think that is the problem here. The web site allows searching of three words, shows a list of possible locations based on different spellings. The correct spelling then gave the wrong summary of the location but hitting enter it went to the correct one.
It was being used to report a location of a problem that I was not next to so GPS wouldn't have helped.
It was being used to report a location of a problem that I was not next to so GPS wouldn't have helped.
With a bit of testing it seems the initial search gives you a place name within about 10 miles of the three words.
It's not something I used but the council seem to use it but they don't understand the search. It didn't help as the tree problem I was chasing had been recorded completely wrong altogether.
It's not something I used but the council seem to use it but they don't understand the search. It didn't help as the tree problem I was chasing had been recorded completely wrong altogether.
This is odd. But then I only ever use an iPhone. I haven’t opened my laptop for years.
In the mountains if there is any doubt as to location the rescue service just asks for another check. This almost invariably gives an adjacent square. The two references confirm each other. Even on a bad day for satellites I’ve never been more than nine meters out.
In the mountains if there is any doubt as to location the rescue service just asks for another check. This almost invariably gives an adjacent square. The two references confirm each other. Even on a bad day for satellites I’ve never been more than nine meters out.
I have to use W3W for work regularly.
I use the web version as I'm not at the place I'm trying to share with other organisations or work colleagues so I enter the NGR for the location into the W3W search facility and it then gives me the words to use to identify the point. It's been pretty accurate so far
First time I used it was in Northumbria visiting friends, having been out all day returning in the dead of night, in the middle of nowhere, came across an upturned Astra in the road. The occupants were only slightly injured and none of us had a clue where we were! Called emergency services, said I had my three words app and gave them the details and found us straight away, so it does work!
Most of Santa’s elves are equipped with it. ASI have no house number or road name this is very useful indeed.
I have the three words on my front gate and by my front door as well as on the oil tank.
I dunno why the elves come from the North Pole via South American rain forest but they always bring a big black smile.
I have the three words on my front gate and by my front door as well as on the oil tank.
I dunno why the elves come from the North Pole via South American rain forest but they always bring a big black smile.
