Medium fiery lizards.

Trotter said:
Nosey sod that I am, I looked up your WTW. Looks like you’re at a Motorhome dealer. Everything okay? Not that we can travel to help. Stay safe Nabs
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It shouldn’t be showing a motorhome dealer Del. I am at Charlie’s.
Wouldn’t rescuing me be classed as essential travel lol
 
Works fully off line does it?
How about a German using his German version in Greece?
Do all navigators work with it?
Some of the words it comes up with are quite unusual and would be prone to errors.
Is it open source (free) or proprietory (maybe not free)

I'll stick to + or - degrees. Ticks all my boxes
 
Tony Lee said:
Works fully off line does it?
How about a German using his German version in Greece?
Do all navigators work with it?
Some of the words it comes up with are quite unusual and would be prone to errors.
Is it open source (free) or proprietory (maybe not free)

I'll stick to + or - degrees. Ticks all my boxes
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Yes Tony..for those of us who are comfortable with Degrees etc (I prefer decimal rather than DMS) It is simpler
indeed if you are abroad and in need of assistance surely more reliable to quote numbers (slowly and repeat) over the phone. AND if necesarry use German / french or whichever lingo is best.
 
I’ll be up there when I can, if only to annoy you both. Lol 😂 Good to hear Charlie doing well.
 
Red Dwarf said:
I think this may have been mentioned elsewhere, the incredibly useful app ‘what three words’.

The whole planet is divided into 3m x 3m squares, there is a three word code for each square. Given that postcodes are so hit and miss (I have an Orkney postcode, though I live on the mainland), this is an invaluable tool for finding EXACT locations.
This app is fast becoming the must go to tool for the emergency services, delivery drivers and anyone else that needs precise locations. A pal of mine operates tourist boats in the summer, as an added safety system its without compare. It has the whole planet, including the oceans covered.

Perhaps a very useful tool for finding and passing on camping spots. A local photographer that uses drones is incorporating it into his software, I’m certain many other uses will be found.

As for me? If you want to find my gaff, it’s medium fiery lizards!
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Whats 3 words is wonderful. Gets you to tbe exact spot. Post codes cover a big area
 
Has anybody used W3W for food (or anything else) deliveries while out in the van?
 
Red Dwarf said:
I think this may have been mentioned elsewhere, the incredibly useful app ‘what three words’.

The whole planet is divided into 3m x 3m squares, there is a three word code for each square. Given that postcodes are so hit and miss (I have an Orkney postcode, though I live on the mainland), this is an invaluable tool for finding EXACT locations.
This app is fast becoming the must go to tool for the emergency services, delivery drivers and anyone else that needs precise locations. A pal of mine operates tourist boats in the summer, as an added safety system its without compare. It has the whole planet, including the oceans covered.

Perhaps a very useful tool for finding and passing on camping spots. A local photographer that uses drones is incorporating it into his software, I’m certain many other uses will be found.

As for me? If you want to find my gaff, it’s medium fiery lizards!
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Telling the world your What 3 Words reference for your home is not a good idea. Next time a post appears from you about travels, the local low life will know your home is empty!
 
The problem with W3W is that it's sheer scale means that similar sounding words (eg. seen/scene and combinations like bye.tale.mail which would have at least 8 different spelling combinations) together with plurals have to be used.

It's been suggested that using four words would enable a subset of words avoiding such problems, and overlaying the mapping would be a relatively straightforward process.
 
I use W3W all the time to pass on little gems for wild camping to people. I don't publish openly because these generally only cope with 2 or 3 vans (size dependent)
 
st3v3 said:
That doesn't exist, do you have any actual examples?

I'm just wondering if this is hearsay or they've actually thought of the problem...
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Yes. For example:

wants.verses.arrows

And

once.versus.arose

and there are thousands more.

There’s a fairly comprehensive list of similar sounding words used in W3W here: https://cybergibbons.com/security-2/why-what3words-is-not-suitable-for-safety-critical-applications/

Peoples’ accents can also cause problems - there is no difference in the way I pronounce ants and aunts!

The W3W word list is 40,000 long - giving 64,000,000,000,000 combinations.

That same number of combinations could be achieved by fewer than 3,000 words in W4W.
 
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