10-25-2017, 08:21 PM
(This post was last modified: 10-25-2017, 09:01 PM by Pheidippides.)
Still off-topic, but I could not resist...
The company what3words has tried to solve the addressing problem by dividing the word in to 57 trillion 3mx3m squares and assigned each one a unique 3 word address.
So essentially you can find any location on the globe and share it with less ambiguity than any other system (at least in the X and Y, it doesn't work on the Z axis (e.g. a tall residential tower)), including places where addresses are non-existent in other more traditional systems.
For example the firefighters' monument is at: gadget.trucked.consumed.
I guess it is just a really fine UTM grid using words instead of numbers.
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[url=http://www.slate.com/blogs/future_tense/2016/06/27/what3words_divided_the_world_into_57_trillion_squares.html]Slate article.
The company what3words has tried to solve the addressing problem by dividing the word in to 57 trillion 3mx3m squares and assigned each one a unique 3 word address.
So essentially you can find any location on the globe and share it with less ambiguity than any other system (at least in the X and Y, it doesn't work on the Z axis (e.g. a tall residential tower)), including places where addresses are non-existent in other more traditional systems.
For example the firefighters' monument is at: gadget.trucked.consumed.
I guess it is just a really fine UTM grid using words instead of numbers.
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[url=http://www.slate.com/blogs/future_tense/2016/06/27/what3words_divided_the_world_into_57_trillion_squares.html]Slate article.
Everyone move to the back of the bus and we all get home faster.

