BBC news item on What3Words today

[AGR]

For all those who swear by it, apparently rescue services claim one in thirty squares could be confused.
What4Words will be next!
I'm off to polish up my map reading skills!

 

[Donkey Basher]

Not surprising really when you see how the yuff spel thinz 2day... oh, & the way American spelling of words seems to be creeping into general use in the English language!

iPhones have an app that provides lat/long & the OS Locate app the article mentions will give 6 figure grid ref, e.g. SU 123 456, as well as lat/long even with no mobile signal.

 

[404Shooter]

OS Locate allows the user to text the location direct from the app, including to 999. Perhaps the W3W could be developed to include a similar facility?

OS Locate also provides the user with the current GR and altitude which, should you find yourself navigationally challenged, you can combine with your map to plot a route out of difficulty. W3W would struggle to match that.

 

[kimh]

it's only as bad as the person verbally sharing the data, 'Words3What'
if you share the location from the app there's no confusion, 'What3Words'

 

[Grannysmith]

I just can't get on with the app

 

[Pete1774]

I've tried W3W but prefer OS Locate because its easier to speak a string of numbers on a poor phone connection than it its to spell out words. Yes I know there are ways to send W3W as txt but I like numbers

 

[CarlW]

I prefer grid references.

 

[Selous]

Like everything the devil is in the detail. I typed three words in and got the plural wrong. I was given three options, one in Westerm Australia, the second in Canada and the third 4km away from my location at the time. It wasn’t a difficult choice

 

[Kevgun]

copy and paste, works for me.

 

[Scandially]

I got a W3W location of a poached deer, it's still there.

 

[cjm1066]

Like Esperanto an answer to a problem that doesn't exist.

 

[Jagdmatch]

Four King Maps - Fucking good maps

www.fourkingmaps.co.uk

seen on another forum

 

[Longstrider]

What ever happened to "Down Brook Lane, look left at the gateway by the big oak tree and it's about a hundred yards in front of you" ?

 

[deerstalker.308]

I use GPS OS app for work all the time, gives a very accurate 10 figure grid ref.

 

[User00040]

I got a W3W location of a poached deer, it's still there.

Your shed?

 

[Scandially]

Not.my.shed.

 

[Scandially]

There was a guy on FB named Amin Yershed... the comments were hilarious.

 

[tozzybum]

There used to be a " correspondent" to a magazine called " Hugh Jarse " who claimed to be from Weedon.
He used to raise a smile or 2.

 

[Scandially]

.....a guy a few years older than me at school had a violin teaching father. His name was Yehudi MacEwan.

 

[kimh]

I've tried W3W but prefer OS Locate because its easier to speak a string of numbers on a poor phone connection than it its to spell out words. Yes I know there are ways to send W3W as txt but I like numbers

I like the Notes of Music? but as Eric Morecambe said to Andre Previn 'I'm playing all the right notes but not necessarily in the right order' = which is the 'Key', get it (any of them) in the right order