![]() What3words is offered in more than 40 languages and stretches across the globe, giving locations for places that don’t have addresses and would otherwise prove to be impossible to find. You need data or WiFi to download the app initially, but once it's on your phone, you’ll have complete access to the trillions of three-word location names. “So something like 'table, chair, spoon' is the name of one square, and you can move three metres to the side and it might be called 'coffee, banana, syrup,' and so on and so on around the entire world,” Sheldrick says.Īll you need to do is download the app, and from there you can navigate a grid, input an address or pick a square and it will tell you the correlating three words to that location point. The system divides the world into three-metre squares – 57 trillion of them, give or take, and each named using a combination of common words found in any dictionary. The what3words app divides the world into three-by-three-metre squares, each given a name that is a combination of three common words. That’s what led to the development of what3words - a global addressing system based on what Sheldrick says is the simplest way to talk about location. “Basically I sat down with a friend and I was like how do we simplify GPS coordinates into something really simple that anybody from a child to a grandparent could feel at ease using?” he says. He tried simply passing on longitude and latitude-based GPS coordinates, but found that was too niche and complicated for most people. “Every day you're trying to find somewhere new and I was trying to get people to find an entrance to a field for a festival or, let's say, gate L42, when you are loading the equipment into Wembley stadium or something, and the address was never accurate enough or pointed to the right place.” “What people don't often know is that musicians get lost a lot,” said Sheldrick, whose background includes expensive experience in the music business. ![]() That last one is exactly what happened to Chris Sheldrick, who knew there must be a simpler way of communicating exact locations. ![]() Ever order a package only to find the person who delivered it put it in the wrong spot? What about trying to get to that Airbnb you booked, but just plugging in the address isn’t quite enough to get you there? And how about trying to find a friend at a music festival held in an open field with no real landmarks to use as visual cues? ![]()
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