What3Words

2013 Chris Sheldrake and friends set up What3Words Limited. https://what3words.com ‘Chris had asked ‘a mathematician friend for the idea of dividing the world into 3-metre (10 ft) squares, and the linguist Jack Waley-Cohen with using memorable words‘https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/What3words Ok, my first reaction was guarded: What 3 words? Not Which? But I tried my own address and got ///mental……salads (abbrev for discretion) aaaand it’s not far off the tone of the place. The example given on the site for 10 Downing Street is///soft.extra.snailthis is where you have to be careful, 10 Downing Street, London, UK is///slurs.this.shark and then that’s when I begin to wonder whether linguist Jack Waley-Cohen was just a big kid playing silly. What it is good for is precise locating, as opposed to address finding. Someone lost, middle-of-nowhere but with phone, can be tracked and found with 3 metres of where they are. Wiki does acknowledge problems here:‘a number of criticisms both for its…