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Jobbo wrote: ↑Thu Jul 05, 2018 9:43 am I hadn't heard of https://what3words.com/ until this week. It's a way to replace property addresses with three words - each 3m square of the earth (approx - it gets a bit out of whack near the poles) is allocated a three word combo by this company and is uniquely located by it.

This seemed a very hipster idea until I discovered Merc is including it in its sat navs. I don't get it. It's a closed standard, it's a proprietary algorithm and it has no actual correlation to the place so has no logic to it. At least with a traditional US or UK address you can see narrow down the country, state, county, town, district, street etc even without looking at the postcode. It would be far more logical for any developing countries to come up with their own similar system of addresses, not (like Mongolia, apparently) tying themselves into a system which even when you're completely used to it, requires you to use an app to look up where an address is.

Anyone else heard of this or think it's a good idea for any reason?

Mito Man wrote: ↑Thu Jul 05, 2018 9:51 am There was an article about in on Boatshoes announcing the Mercedes partnership maybe a year ago. I thought it sounded useful for foreign countries where some addresses have accents or letters not in the English Alphabet which confuses some navs. Also it went on about potentially being used by couriers - you could tell them if you wanted a package delivered to your door or gate which also sounded good.

NotoriousREV wrote: ↑Thu Jul 05, 2018 10:03 am I've been arguing with people on their Facebook page.

JLv3.0 wrote: ↑Thu Jul 05, 2018 10:20 am

NotoriousREV wrote: ↑Thu Jul 05, 2018 10:03 am I've been arguing with people on their Facebook page.

Why?

NotoriousREV wrote: ↑Thu Jul 05, 2018 10:26 am Amazingly, if you get your 3 word address slightly wrong, you're in for a whole heap of trouble.

For example:

- limit.broom.flip is Camden Town, London
- limit.brooms.flip is Novaya Chara, Zabaykalsky Krai, Russia.

Jobbo wrote: ↑Thu Jul 05, 2018 10:31 am

NotoriousREV wrote: ↑Thu Jul 05, 2018 10:26 am Amazingly, if you get your 3 word address slightly wrong, you're in for a whole heap of trouble.

For example:

- limit.broom.flip is Camden Town, London
- limit.brooms.flip is Novaya Chara, Zabaykalsky Krai, Russia.

Ah, but they say that is deliberate because you can tell you aren't supposed to be in Russia!

Our hamlet is called Barrow. I tried typing in one of the multiple possible addresses for our house and it suggested a place called Barrow with a very similar address, but in Alaska. It didn't show us as Barrow but under the name of a much larger village a few miles away. If you knew we lived in Barrow that would not help with the confusion.