Simple and Sharable: Using "What 3 Words" for location information!

[@VisionForwardTechConnect]

What three words would you use to describe the What3Words service? Which alternatives would you recommend that can accomplish the same tasks? Thanks again for watching! Join us next time, and be sure to like and subscribe!

[@motobojo2]

You mentioned this being a more precise method. I don't get how that's the case. It seems as accurate as all GPS-based services. Also whay use this app rather than any other GPS naviagation app. Don't they all have a means of dropping a ping (sharing your location)?

[@VisionForwardTechConnect]

You raise some good points. I can think of some advantages over using a pin. For example, if you are a screen reader user dropping a pin may be difficult if you are not in the location that you want to drop the pin in. If you know what the three words are already, then it's much easier to share. For example, let's say you want to schedule a pickup from a location that you regularly go to but that's out of the way. Once you have found the three words for that location once, they will always be the same. Therefore it's very easy for you to schedule the pickup in advance by sharing the three words with your pickup driver whenever needed. The accuracy is more a comparison to being given traditional locational information. For example, if you say 'meet me at the concert by the drinking fountains' then it may be a large concert with many people and difficult to find the fountains. If you have a 3 words location then you know the specific 10ft by 10ft grid they will be in.

[@motobojo2]

@@VisionForwardTechConnect Your scenarios presume that the recepient will be familar with the WTW service and that they would have WTW on their phone and know what to do with th three words that you have remembered and are conveying to them via some other form of communications. If you are sending it to them through the WTW app that is a scenario where conventional dropping of a pin would be the same. In effect you are sending them a URL that opens a GPS app (like WTW or Google Maps) that has the location infomration included in the URL. I have URLs squirled away for my locations of interest that I can copy and paste or share quite easily. Or I can have locations in my favorites in google maps (or other GPS apps). Open them and easily share them. I'm just not getting an understanding of the value added of W3W. The encoding of location information in 3 words is interesting and somewhat cool, but I'm just not understanding the value added that would justify using yet another app. Yes, W3W is can be more accurate than a non-specific verbal location information, but that just means the information provided wasn't precise enough. But yes, that has some value. How easy is it to get the 3 words you describe in that scenario if you aren't actually at that location?

[@makkienai]

thanks , it seems that gps accuracy never gets better than 20 feet. :/

[@VisionForwardTechConnect]

What 3 words should be accurate to 10 feet!