We haven't had W3W wars lately......

[DuxDeluxe]

Simply 12 favourite accidentally funny What3Words combos

The What3words app is a mapping system that divides the surface of the Earth into 3m by 3m squares, and allocates a unique set of three words to each square. The system is very useful for when you’re meeting friends, ordering food or calling the emergency services, but it’s also handy for...

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[Janine]

Somewhere near me that I went to earlier this year was ///campers.tricks.dabbling

 

[DuxDeluxe]

Somewhere near me that I went to earlier this year was ///campers.tricks.dabbling

TMI

 

[Coolcats]

The fire service were using it before I retired as were the ambulance service. It’s easy to use by anyone with a smartphone anywhere on the planet. No need for maps, compasses or the knowledge to use them.
Yes, there will be those on here decrying W3W just because they can read a map, use grid refs etc.
Many can’t and W3W for them could be a life saver.

ELS is a technology built in to mobile phones, no app is required and people often panic in an emergency situation. If you happen to be in the sea when calling for help the screen becomes difficult to use Plus the fact that you can be in a rip current and moving from a location quite fast so a technology that is automatic can save a life.

 

[glenn2926]

ELS is a technology built in to mobile phones, no app is required and people often panic in an emergency situation. If you happen to be in the sea when calling for help the screen becomes difficult to use Plus the fact that you can be in a rip current and moving from a location quite fast so a technology that is automatic can save a life.

Never heard of it.

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[Coolcats]

I love it. I don't think chaser does. And someone I can't remember thinks a coordinate is easier to remember. Each to their own hey?? Makes the world go round.

What I said was a co-ordinate is easy to use. We live in a world of numbers and words one is not simpler than the other a data engineer will have IP address ranges in their heads and easily reconfigure a network based within the rules store men often can recall long numbers and know exactly where the items are located in the storage bins

 

[Coolcats]

Never heard of it.

You won’t because it’s just there in your phone same as H323 which is the codec that enables your video call or wifi call neat eh.

 

[glenn2926]

You won’t because it’s just there in your phone same as H323 which is the codec that enables your video call or wifi call neat eh.

So how are we meant to use it? Doesn’t sound very useful to me.

 

[Rapphil]

Simply 12 favourite accidentally funny What3Words combos

The What3words app is a mapping system that divides the surface of the Earth into 3m by 3m squares, and allocates a unique set of three words to each square. The system is very useful for when you’re meeting friends, ordering food or calling the emergency services, but it’s also handy for...

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No.12 interesting ;
stop feeling yourself in Pollock Pines!!

 

[Two of usI]

Expect I'll be that old soon that I can't remember where my car is parked !!!!

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[Janine]

Expect I'll be that old soon that I can't remember where my car is parked !!!!

I’m already there

Because there were no disabled spaces free, I dropped my elderly mother off at the door of the garden centre last week and threw the car in the first space I could find, forgetting to take in any landmarks. It took me ages to find it again.

That’s when I realised that W3W would have come in handy. It probably won’t be much use in a multi storey carpark though

 

[Cinderz]

Great on a hospital car park tho'

 

[DuxDeluxe]

I’m already there

Because there were no disabled spaces free, I dropped my elderly mother off at the door of the garden centre last week and threw the car in the first space I could find, forgetting to take in any landmarks. It took me ages to find it again.

That’s when I realised that W3W would have come in handy. It probably won’t be much use in a multi storey carpark though

Been there, done that

Years ago when living in the Middle East parked up at the huge airport car park in Jeddah and rushed to catch a flight. Came back that evening and then realised that at least half the cars were white Toyotas! Have also got hopelessly lost in IKEA car parks….

 

[Coolcats]

So how are we meant to use it? Doesn’t sound very useful to me.

No app required no fumbling fingers no W3W needed it’s very useful just dial 999

Apologies it’s not ELS it’s AML

 

[Coolcats]

So how are we meant to use it? Doesn’t sound very useful to me.

This is an example of how extramly hard it would be to use W3W or any other app ilif you need a rescue. If you have ever used a mobile in water, or rain/cold/bad weather the touch screen tends not to work well. Which is why a number of digital mapping devices come with a little joystick etc

Here is the video of someone who was rescued

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[glenn2926]

No app required no fumbling fingers no W3W needed it’s very useful just dial 999

It’s only any use if calling the emergency services then? W3W can be used by anyone to give a location to anyone else. That’s as well as the emergency services.
How you think that better I don’t know?
We use W3W on our risk assessments. These can be used for emergency services. We also write the W3W locations for road ambulance access, the W3W location for helicopter landing area. The W3W for emergency vehicle 4x4 access.
How’s your system doing regarding these very useful options with W3W?

 

[Coolcats]

It’s only any use if calling the emergency services then? W3W can be used by anyone to give a location to anyone else. That’s as well as the emergency services.
How you think that better I don’t know?
We use W3W on our risk assessments. These can be used for emergency services. We also write the W3W locations for road ambulance access, the W3W location for helicopter landing area. The W3W for emergency vehicle 4x4 access.
How’s your system doing regarding these very useful options with W3W?

W3W was never designed as an emergency app AML is and saves seconds which can save a life

If you are so involved with W3W you should also be aware of AML which in an automated system will provide accurate location details without human intervention. Now it could be that the automation passes this to a mapping system that uses W3W but AML would kick that off without anyone having to open any app saving vital time and I would have thought you would see the value in that. (Edited to say AML is not my system it was developed by BT and EE and is being embedded in emergency networks and rolled out across Europe and various countries across the world)

Since W3W is being promoted so strongly I thought my goodness what have I been doing wrong all these years maybe I’m the one who is wrong but……I still find where I need to go it’s never the first 300 miles and maybe the last 300 yards but even then I always get to where I need to be with out being lost.

 

[glenn2926]

W3W was never designed as an emergency app AML is and saves seconds which can save a life

Since W3W is being promoted so strongly I thought my goodness what have I been doing wrong all these years maybe I’m the one who is wrong but……I still find where I need to go it’s never the first 300 miles and maybe the last 300 yards but even then I always get to where I need to be with out being lost.

So you chose not to answer my question re using your system to point out emergency services access to incidents? Not really a surprise as it can’t do it.
Strange that after working in and with emergency services for over thirty years I’ve never heard of or known anyone in the job that has used your system. I have however used the W3W system many times. As have many other emergency services workers.

 

[Jewellbags]

W3w? Wtf? Rtfm

 

[DuxDeluxe]

It’s only any use if calling the emergency services then? W3W can be used by anyone to give a location to anyone else. That’s as well as the emergency services.
How you think that better I don’t know?
We use W3W on our risk assessments. These can be used for emergency services. We also write the W3W locations for road ambulance access, the W3W location for helicopter landing area. The W3W for emergency vehicle 4x4 access.
How’s your system doing regarding these very useful options with W3W?

When I broke down earlier this year on the M6/A14 junction and called in the breakdown people (just made it to the first lay-by), Crouch recovery dispatcher already knew exactly where I was and just wanted verbal confirmation

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[mofurt]

There are some clone systems coming out now - for example using four words instead of three, or changing the words to make it less likely you'll have two that sound alike. Obviously they are less useful as fewer people have them installed, but I thought this might amuse some. One of these makes it easier for some to remember by choosing only rude words. A link to the site that was built by an infosec researcher who analysed the W3W algorithm (https://cybergibbons.com/security-2/what3words-the-algorithm/) is in the spoiler tags below - the link is innocuous, but don't follow if easily offended as clicking on points on the map will give you rude words.

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[steve69]

Is this why Chasers not a fan. Inflamed.flesh.massaged is farmland near Stoke

Here we go.....Let's play a game of "See where 3 suggestive words gets you".....I'll start.....Bum.Willy.Tit.
Nothing like W3W for bringing out the 14 year-old in you....

 

[Coolcats]

So you chose not to answer my question re using your system to point out emergency services access to incidents? Not really a surprise as it can’t do it.
Strange that after working in and with emergency services for over thirty years I’ve never heard of or known anyone in the job that has used your system. I have however used the W3W system many times. As have many other emergency services workers.

Don’t get angry or upset if you have not heard of it, it’s not my system. It was developed by BT and EE adopted by many other network operators it’s being deployed across Europe and many other countries. dial 999 or 112 your location is transmitted saving time no app is required. You should know that shock can occur with traumatic incidents and adds further delay so automatically sending your location has to be a positive thing and should the end to end process be automated then a simple phone call will provide the location emergency services can quickly be mobilised and the location placed on their mapping/guidance/location system reliably and quickly without a caller needing to use an app. That should be something to be applauded rather than argued against. the originator of an emergency call should not have to down load or open any app, as it will save lives.

 

[glenn2926]

Don’t get angry or upset if you have not heard of it, it’s not my system. It was developed by BT and EE adopted by many other network operators it’s being deployed across Europe and many other countries. dial 999 or 112 your location is transmitted saving time no app is required. You should know that shock can occur with traumatic incidents and adds further delay so automatically sending your location has to be a positive thing and should the end to end process be automated then a simple phone call will provide the location emergency services can quickly be mobilised and the location placed on their mapping/guidance/location system reliably and quickly without a caller needing to use an app. That should be something to be applauded rather than argue the originator of an emergency call should down load or open any app, as it will save lives.

Having another location finder is good but it’s very singular in use. Plus as you showed the receiver has to set up the alphabet spaghetti list of letters you showed on your post. None of which make any sense to me.
W3W has a far greater field of use than just the location of the phone making the call. You don’t seem to be a fan of W3W, fine don’t use it, those of use that do use find it very useful.
I’m pretty sure the system you’re talking about couldn’t have been used to locate the OPs car though.

 

[Coolcats]

Having another location finder is good but it’s very singular in use. Plus as you showed the receiver has to set up the alphabet spaghetti list of letters you showed on your post. None of which make any sense to me.
W3W has a far greater field of use than just the location of the phone making the call. You don’t seem to be a fan of W3W, fine don’t use it, those of use that do use find it very useful.
I’m pretty sure the system you’re talking about couldn’t have been used to locate the OPs car though.

I agree it is a good location identifier requiring no input from the caller other than 999 and yes it could locate the car in an Emergency call which is it’s sole purpose no app no fumbling and no mistakes. You will be aware even if you do not transmit a land line number this will be available to emergency services. AML is a lifesaving emergency services piece of technology.

I don’t need another app in my life I know where to go and how to get there without relying on W3W so nope I will not be using it but for others who feel the need please do.

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[glenn2926]

I agree it is a good location identifier requiring no input from the caller other than 999 and yes it could locate the car in an Emergency call which is it’s sole purpose no app no fumbling and no mistakes. You will be aware even if you do not transmit a land line number this will be available to emergency services. AML is a lifesaving emergency services piece of technology.

I don’t need another app in my life I know where to go and how to get there without relying on W3W so nope I will not be using it but for others who feel the need please do.

It could only locate the car if the phone was in the car. It wasn’t. That’s my point. Yes the phone can be located but it cannot be used in emergency planning to locate access points or landing ares for helicopters or to send RV points. Only to locate the phone itself. It’s good but very, very limited in its application.

 

[Wannabee]

I know there will be nay-sayers but I found W3W really useful today!

My favourite carpark in Shrewsbury was full today so I took to the back lanes to find somewhere to park.

So that I could find my way back to it, I pinned the location on W3W and followed the route back on Google maps.

facing.bunch.rear made me smile too

There's me thinking the thread's about Putin's latest incursion...

 

[DuxDeluxe]

Well, I am going to avoid Sioux City Nebraska….

many.eating.duck

 

[glenn2926]

We attended a moor fire a few years ago rang in by a caller across the valley he looked on his W3W app. Touched the screen where the fire was that gave him the W3W for that location and away we went. Tell me how your system could do that.

 

[Janine]

I agree it is a good location identifier requiring no input from the caller other than 999 and yes it could locate the car in an Emergency call which is it’s sole purpose no app no fumbling and no mistakes. You will be aware even if you do not transmit a land line number this will be available to emergency services. AML is a lifesaving emergency services piece of technology.

I don’t need another app in my life I know where to go and how to get there without relying on W3W so nope I will not be using it but for others who feel the need please do.

It’s horses for courses!

I wouldn’t dial 999 because I have lost my car at the Merry Hill Shopping Centre

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