you will get everywhere
Three words. That's all you need to get anywhere on the planet, be it a street, a hotel, or the rightmost entrance of a government building. Or from your house. Because, believe it or not, there are three words to define each square 3x3 meters of the planet.
What3words is the company that has made this revolution possible: “The what3words system never change , so a three-word address today will be the same as it would be 100 years from now,” he explains. Miriam Frank from her headquarters. “This is important, because it allows the application to work completely offline, and without the need to be constantly updated”.
Thus, it does not matter if the law of Historical memory, for example, it forces to change the name of an avenue: in what3words, its definition will remain the same. It also doesn't matter if you're traveling by middle of the desert and you don't have coverage, because there are already apps that work offline with this nominal technology, like Navmii either Pocket Earth .
The what3words system even helps to improve the response time of United Nations and Red Cross in humanitarian disasters, during which finding the exact location of people as quickly as possible can mean the difference between life and death.
With this technology you will not be able to get lost even on a desert island
This technology, of course, also has more "carefree" purposes, such as finding the point from which to enjoy the perfect view of the island of Es Vedrà (it is ///callers.withstand.entry) , get that The pizzas arrive faster and warmer at your home - Domino's has already achieved it -, that the messengers don't get lost looking for your house Aramex has improved its efficiency by 40% using it- or that the driver of Cabify know exactly which side of the road you are on. Moreover, giants like airbnbn either Mercedes Benz they are already working with this technology, and in fact, the last one has just launched the first car in the world which has a built-in GPS based on what3words.
According to the company, in addition, each time there is more people and institutions using the three words to define a place instead of the traditional addresses, such as the Kempinski Hotels chains, Small Luxury Hotels and Landmark Hotels. In total, they would be more 1,000 businesses, as well as government agencies and NGOs from more than 170 countries those that would be making use of what3words technology according to the company itself.
Whether you are far or near, your driver will be able to find you easily
HOW TO USE WHAT3WORDS?
If you want, for example, to share with a friend the exact direction where you are right now, simply download the what3words app, click on "to share" and send the three words via SMS, email or social networks. Or if you prefer not to download the app, go to map.what3words.com and do the same.
You can also find the three words that specify the place where you sit at work , for instance. To do this, enter the address of your workplace and move the red square to the position you want - to make the search even more precise, you can activate the satellite view -. And if what you want is to reach a destination whose three words have provided you, you just have to type them in the seeker of what3words and click on "navigation" . The app will then offer you several possibilities to find the route, among which are Google Maps.
You can share your location by different means
HOW HAVE THE WORDS THAT DEFINE EACH PLACE BEEN CHOSEN?
Are needed 40,000 words to cover the entire globe with each of the 26 languages in which what3words is translated (including Spanish) . "Every word is carefully selected by our brilliant team of linguists together with hundreds of linguistic consultants It's from all over the world,” explains Frank. “Three-word addresses are intentionally random and are not associated with those near and far from similar-sounding addresses. So, ///table.chair.lamp is in Bundenaa , New South Wales, Australia , while ///table.chair.lamps is in New Jersey , USA”, he continues.
"This eliminate the confusion and avoids errors that often occur with similar street names or misspelled zip codes. Therefore, the chance of reaching the wrong location is almost nil when navigating to a three-word address”, summarizes the expert.
Practically, each towel has its own location
Of course, if we wanted to give someone the address of Bundenaa we could not translate the english version and say that it is in “///table.chair.lámpara”, because in Spanish, that same address corresponds to “ ///regulate.we dance.alarm ”. “This is partly because a single word in a language can have various translations in other. For example, the English translation of the French word 'livre' is both 'libra' and 'libro', Frank muses.
“Also, so that people can use what3words in their native language in the easiest way possible, we have chosen the words shorter and more common of the areas where that language is most frequently spoken. The simplest Spanish words and popular are used for three-word addresses in Spain and Latin America, while the words In turkish most common will be in Turkey, and so on,” he tells us. In this way, the only way we have to "translate" an address is using the app or the online map.
40,000 words to measure the world