Three Word Address
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It didn't click with me when I first came across this this morning.. but Ham operators have been using something close to this for a while.
While it's not on the 3m x 3m,.. it's been around and is international
Introduction
One of the first things you will notice when you tune the low end of any VHF band is that most QSOs include an exchange of "grid squares." What are grid squares? Well, they're more like rectangles and are just a way of dividing up the surface of the Earth. Grid squares are a shorthand means of describing your general location anywhere on the Earth in a manner that is easy to communicate over the air.
An instrument of the Maidenhead Locator System (named after the town outside London where it was first conceived by a meeting of European VHF managers in 1980), a grid square measures 1° latitude by 2° longitude and measures approximately 70 × 100 miles in the continental US. A grid square is indicated by two letters (the field) and two numbers (the square), as in FN31, the grid square within which W1AW, ARRL's Maxim Memorial Station, resides.
Each subsquare is designated by the addition of two letters after the grid square, as FN44ig. These more precise locators are used as part of the exchange in the 10-GHz contest. They measure 2.5 minutes latitude by 5 minutes longitude, roughly corresponding to 3 × 4 miles in the continental US.
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@scottalanmiller said in Three Word Address:
@dafyre said in Three Word Address:
@dashrender said in Three Word Address:
@dustinb3403 said in Three Word Address:
@dashrender But the three word address system could be synonymous with "I live at .yellow.cloud.google" the same as "I'm at 50th and dodge"
Just requires an adjustment of familiarity.
Really? Think about what you just said. You mean a person for the first time and you're going to their place.. and the tell you they live at horse.shoe.staple - why would you have any idea where in the city that is? You've never been there before.
We would give folks directions, the same as we do now. "Hang a right at green.frog.pocketbook. Then take the third left onto brown.apple.fritter. I'm at horse.shoe.staple -- about 5 minutes down."
Might as well just use GPS coordinates, that's even easier for humans to use because they increment in expected ways.
This was my first question when I read the transcript. How does this help anyone just do addressing by GPS coordinates easier to use and already used by every GPS unit in existence.
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@scottalanmiller said in Three Word Address:
mouse.table.pony
https://map.what3words.com/mouse.table.pony
rat.table.horse
Doesn't seem to exist... that's interesting.
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@coliver said in Three Word Address:
@scottalanmiller said in Three Word Address:
@dafyre said in Three Word Address:
@dashrender said in Three Word Address:
@dustinb3403 said in Three Word Address:
@dashrender But the three word address system could be synonymous with "I live at .yellow.cloud.google" the same as "I'm at 50th and dodge"
Just requires an adjustment of familiarity.
Really? Think about what you just said. You mean a person for the first time and you're going to their place.. and the tell you they live at horse.shoe.staple - why would you have any idea where in the city that is? You've never been there before.
We would give folks directions, the same as we do now. "Hang a right at green.frog.pocketbook. Then take the third left onto brown.apple.fritter. I'm at horse.shoe.staple -- about 5 minutes down."
Might as well just use GPS coordinates, that's even easier for humans to use because they increment in expected ways.
This was my first question when I read the transcript. How does this help anyone just do addressing by GPS coordinates easier to use and already used by every GPS unit in existence.
Because trying to say im at Lat <#> Minutes <#> Long <#> is impossible for people to remember.
But by providing a simple 3 word phrase can the Muggles of the world provide a specific location.
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@dustinb3403 said in Three Word Address:
@coliver said in Three Word Address:
@scottalanmiller said in Three Word Address:
@dafyre said in Three Word Address:
@dashrender said in Three Word Address:
@dustinb3403 said in Three Word Address:
@dashrender But the three word address system could be synonymous with "I live at .yellow.cloud.google" the same as "I'm at 50th and dodge"
Just requires an adjustment of familiarity.
Really? Think about what you just said. You mean a person for the first time and you're going to their place.. and the tell you they live at horse.shoe.staple - why would you have any idea where in the city that is? You've never been there before.
We would give folks directions, the same as we do now. "Hang a right at green.frog.pocketbook. Then take the third left onto brown.apple.fritter. I'm at horse.shoe.staple -- about 5 minutes down."
Might as well just use GPS coordinates, that's even easier for humans to use because they increment in expected ways.
This was my first question when I read the transcript. How does this help anyone just do addressing by GPS coordinates easier to use and already used by every GPS unit in existence.
Because trying to say im at Lat <#> Minutes <#> Long <#> is impossible for people to remember.
But by providing a simple 3 word phrase can the Muggles of the world provide a specific location.
You don't remember, you send via email, facebook, or text.
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@scottalanmiller said in Three Word Address:
@dustinb3403 said in Three Word Address:
@coliver said in Three Word Address:
@scottalanmiller said in Three Word Address:
@dafyre said in Three Word Address:
@dashrender said in Three Word Address:
@dustinb3403 said in Three Word Address:
@dashrender But the three word address system could be synonymous with "I live at .yellow.cloud.google" the same as "I'm at 50th and dodge"
Just requires an adjustment of familiarity.
Really? Think about what you just said. You mean a person for the first time and you're going to their place.. and the tell you they live at horse.shoe.staple - why would you have any idea where in the city that is? You've never been there before.
We would give folks directions, the same as we do now. "Hang a right at green.frog.pocketbook. Then take the third left onto brown.apple.fritter. I'm at horse.shoe.staple -- about 5 minutes down."
Might as well just use GPS coordinates, that's even easier for humans to use because they increment in expected ways.
This was my first question when I read the transcript. How does this help anyone just do addressing by GPS coordinates easier to use and already used by every GPS unit in existence.
Because trying to say im at Lat <#> Minutes <#> Long <#> is impossible for people to remember.
But by providing a simple 3 word phrase can the Muggles of the world provide a specific location.
You don't remember, you send via email, facebook, or text.
In any case, the means of transportation is way more simple to remember, email, text 3 words than it is to send Latitude Longitude coordinates. . .
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Think of it like this,
How many people right now can list their exact latitude and longitude ?
With a system like this, you can simply remember it.
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@dustinb3403 said in Three Word Address:
@scottalanmiller said in Three Word Address:
@dustinb3403 said in Three Word Address:
@coliver said in Three Word Address:
@scottalanmiller said in Three Word Address:
@dafyre said in Three Word Address:
@dashrender said in Three Word Address:
@dustinb3403 said in Three Word Address:
@dashrender But the three word address system could be synonymous with "I live at .yellow.cloud.google" the same as "I'm at 50th and dodge"
Just requires an adjustment of familiarity.
Really? Think about what you just said. You mean a person for the first time and you're going to their place.. and the tell you they live at horse.shoe.staple - why would you have any idea where in the city that is? You've never been there before.
We would give folks directions, the same as we do now. "Hang a right at green.frog.pocketbook. Then take the third left onto brown.apple.fritter. I'm at horse.shoe.staple -- about 5 minutes down."
Might as well just use GPS coordinates, that's even easier for humans to use because they increment in expected ways.
This was my first question when I read the transcript. How does this help anyone just do addressing by GPS coordinates easier to use and already used by every GPS unit in existence.
Because trying to say im at Lat <#> Minutes <#> Long <#> is impossible for people to remember.
But by providing a simple 3 word phrase can the Muggles of the world provide a specific location.
You don't remember, you send via email, facebook, or text.
In any case, the means of transportation is way more simple to remember, email, text 3 words than it is to send Latitude Longitude coordinates. . .
Every modern messaging app has the ability to pull in your current location. I did this on Saturday to help my brother and sister-in-law get to us when we were in Boston.
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@coliver said in Three Word Address:
@dustinb3403 said in Three Word Address:
@scottalanmiller said in Three Word Address:
@dustinb3403 said in Three Word Address:
@coliver said in Three Word Address:
@scottalanmiller said in Three Word Address:
@dafyre said in Three Word Address:
@dashrender said in Three Word Address:
@dustinb3403 said in Three Word Address:
@dashrender But the three word address system could be synonymous with "I live at .yellow.cloud.google" the same as "I'm at 50th and dodge"
Just requires an adjustment of familiarity.
Really? Think about what you just said. You mean a person for the first time and you're going to their place.. and the tell you they live at horse.shoe.staple - why would you have any idea where in the city that is? You've never been there before.
We would give folks directions, the same as we do now. "Hang a right at green.frog.pocketbook. Then take the third left onto brown.apple.fritter. I'm at horse.shoe.staple -- about 5 minutes down."
Might as well just use GPS coordinates, that's even easier for humans to use because they increment in expected ways.
This was my first question when I read the transcript. How does this help anyone just do addressing by GPS coordinates easier to use and already used by every GPS unit in existence.
Because trying to say im at Lat <#> Minutes <#> Long <#> is impossible for people to remember.
But by providing a simple 3 word phrase can the Muggles of the world provide a specific location.
You don't remember, you send via email, facebook, or text.
In any case, the means of transportation is way more simple to remember, email, text 3 words than it is to send Latitude Longitude coordinates. . .
Every modern messaging app has the ability to pull in your current location. I did this on Saturday to help my brother and sister-in-law get to us when we were in Boston.
Modern apps.... third world countries barely have electricity. Much less a phone to send their exact location to emergency responders.
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@coliver said in Three Word Address:
@dustinb3403 said in Three Word Address:
@scottalanmiller said in Three Word Address:
@dustinb3403 said in Three Word Address:
@coliver said in Three Word Address:
@scottalanmiller said in Three Word Address:
@dafyre said in Three Word Address:
@dashrender said in Three Word Address:
@dustinb3403 said in Three Word Address:
@dashrender But the three word address system could be synonymous with "I live at .yellow.cloud.google" the same as "I'm at 50th and dodge"
Just requires an adjustment of familiarity.
Really? Think about what you just said. You mean a person for the first time and you're going to their place.. and the tell you they live at horse.shoe.staple - why would you have any idea where in the city that is? You've never been there before.
We would give folks directions, the same as we do now. "Hang a right at green.frog.pocketbook. Then take the third left onto brown.apple.fritter. I'm at horse.shoe.staple -- about 5 minutes down."
Might as well just use GPS coordinates, that's even easier for humans to use because they increment in expected ways.
This was my first question when I read the transcript. How does this help anyone just do addressing by GPS coordinates easier to use and already used by every GPS unit in existence.
Because trying to say im at Lat <#> Minutes <#> Long <#> is impossible for people to remember.
But by providing a simple 3 word phrase can the Muggles of the world provide a specific location.
You don't remember, you send via email, facebook, or text.
In any case, the means of transportation is way more simple to remember, email, text 3 words than it is to send Latitude Longitude coordinates. . .
Every modern messaging app has the ability to pull in your current location. I did this on Saturday to help my brother and sister-in-law get to us when we were in Boston.
I do it all of the time.
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@dustinb3403 said in Three Word Address:
@coliver said in Three Word Address:
@dustinb3403 said in Three Word Address:
@scottalanmiller said in Three Word Address:
@dustinb3403 said in Three Word Address:
@coliver said in Three Word Address:
@scottalanmiller said in Three Word Address:
@dafyre said in Three Word Address:
@dashrender said in Three Word Address:
@dustinb3403 said in Three Word Address:
@dashrender But the three word address system could be synonymous with "I live at .yellow.cloud.google" the same as "I'm at 50th and dodge"
Just requires an adjustment of familiarity.
Really? Think about what you just said. You mean a person for the first time and you're going to their place.. and the tell you they live at horse.shoe.staple - why would you have any idea where in the city that is? You've never been there before.
We would give folks directions, the same as we do now. "Hang a right at green.frog.pocketbook. Then take the third left onto brown.apple.fritter. I'm at horse.shoe.staple -- about 5 minutes down."
Might as well just use GPS coordinates, that's even easier for humans to use because they increment in expected ways.
This was my first question when I read the transcript. How does this help anyone just do addressing by GPS coordinates easier to use and already used by every GPS unit in existence.
Because trying to say im at Lat <#> Minutes <#> Long <#> is impossible for people to remember.
But by providing a simple 3 word phrase can the Muggles of the world provide a specific location.
You don't remember, you send via email, facebook, or text.
In any case, the means of transportation is way more simple to remember, email, text 3 words than it is to send Latitude Longitude coordinates. . .
Every modern messaging app has the ability to pull in your current location. I did this on Saturday to help my brother and sister-in-law get to us when we were in Boston.
Modern apps.... third world countries barely have electricity. Much less a phone to send their exact location to emergency responders.
Actually they do. The third world has SMS devices like you wouldn't believe.
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@dustinb3403 said in Three Word Address:
Think of it like this,
How many people right now can list their exact latitude and longitude ?
With a system like this, you can simply remember it.
All of us. that's my point exactly.
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@scottalanmiller said in Three Word Address:
@dustinb3403 said in Three Word Address:
Think of it like this,
How many people right now can list their exact latitude and longitude ?
With a system like this, you can simply remember it.
All of us. that's my point exactly.
Bullshit.
Off the top of your head give me your exact latitude longitude and minutes.
No Cheating.
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@dustinb3403 said in Three Word Address:
@coliver said in Three Word Address:
@dustinb3403 said in Three Word Address:
@scottalanmiller said in Three Word Address:
@dustinb3403 said in Three Word Address:
@coliver said in Three Word Address:
@scottalanmiller said in Three Word Address:
@dafyre said in Three Word Address:
@dashrender said in Three Word Address:
@dustinb3403 said in Three Word Address:
@dashrender But the three word address system could be synonymous with "I live at .yellow.cloud.google" the same as "I'm at 50th and dodge"
Just requires an adjustment of familiarity.
Really? Think about what you just said. You mean a person for the first time and you're going to their place.. and the tell you they live at horse.shoe.staple - why would you have any idea where in the city that is? You've never been there before.
We would give folks directions, the same as we do now. "Hang a right at green.frog.pocketbook. Then take the third left onto brown.apple.fritter. I'm at horse.shoe.staple -- about 5 minutes down."
Might as well just use GPS coordinates, that's even easier for humans to use because they increment in expected ways.
This was my first question when I read the transcript. How does this help anyone just do addressing by GPS coordinates easier to use and already used by every GPS unit in existence.
Because trying to say im at Lat <#> Minutes <#> Long <#> is impossible for people to remember.
But by providing a simple 3 word phrase can the Muggles of the world provide a specific location.
You don't remember, you send via email, facebook, or text.
In any case, the means of transportation is way more simple to remember, email, text 3 words than it is to send Latitude Longitude coordinates. . .
Every modern messaging app has the ability to pull in your current location. I did this on Saturday to help my brother and sister-in-law get to us when we were in Boston.
Modern apps.... third world countries barely have electricity. Much less a phone to send their exact location to emergency responders.
Which, oddly, isn't true. They have no electricity but even tribes in Africa and Australia have cell or sat phones. It's been well documented.
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@dustinb3403 said in Three Word Address:
@coliver said in Three Word Address:
@dustinb3403 said in Three Word Address:
@scottalanmiller said in Three Word Address:
@dustinb3403 said in Three Word Address:
@coliver said in Three Word Address:
@scottalanmiller said in Three Word Address:
@dafyre said in Three Word Address:
@dashrender said in Three Word Address:
@dustinb3403 said in Three Word Address:
@dashrender But the three word address system could be synonymous with "I live at .yellow.cloud.google" the same as "I'm at 50th and dodge"
Just requires an adjustment of familiarity.
Really? Think about what you just said. You mean a person for the first time and you're going to their place.. and the tell you they live at horse.shoe.staple - why would you have any idea where in the city that is? You've never been there before.
We would give folks directions, the same as we do now. "Hang a right at green.frog.pocketbook. Then take the third left onto brown.apple.fritter. I'm at horse.shoe.staple -- about 5 minutes down."
Might as well just use GPS coordinates, that's even easier for humans to use because they increment in expected ways.
This was my first question when I read the transcript. How does this help anyone just do addressing by GPS coordinates easier to use and already used by every GPS unit in existence.
Because trying to say im at Lat <#> Minutes <#> Long <#> is impossible for people to remember.
But by providing a simple 3 word phrase can the Muggles of the world provide a specific location.
You don't remember, you send via email, facebook, or text.
In any case, the means of transportation is way more simple to remember, email, text 3 words than it is to send Latitude Longitude coordinates. . .
Every modern messaging app has the ability to pull in your current location. I did this on Saturday to help my brother and sister-in-law get to us when we were in Boston.
Modern apps.... third world countries barely have electricity. Much less a phone to send their exact location to emergency responders.
Let's try this another way... you have no electronic devices. You are alongside the road and are injured.
How will you know the three word code to scream into the air without a digital device to generate it for you?
The three word system only works under conditions where you don't need the three word system.
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I'm done with the conversation.
People are just being haters to hate.
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@coliver said in Three Word Address:
@dustinb3403 said in Three Word Address:
@coliver said in Three Word Address:
@dustinb3403 said in Three Word Address:
@scottalanmiller said in Three Word Address:
@dustinb3403 said in Three Word Address:
@coliver said in Three Word Address:
@scottalanmiller said in Three Word Address:
@dafyre said in Three Word Address:
@dashrender said in Three Word Address:
@dustinb3403 said in Three Word Address:
@dashrender But the three word address system could be synonymous with "I live at .yellow.cloud.google" the same as "I'm at 50th and dodge"
Just requires an adjustment of familiarity.
Really? Think about what you just said. You mean a person for the first time and you're going to their place.. and the tell you they live at horse.shoe.staple - why would you have any idea where in the city that is? You've never been there before.
We would give folks directions, the same as we do now. "Hang a right at green.frog.pocketbook. Then take the third left onto brown.apple.fritter. I'm at horse.shoe.staple -- about 5 minutes down."
Might as well just use GPS coordinates, that's even easier for humans to use because they increment in expected ways.
This was my first question when I read the transcript. How does this help anyone just do addressing by GPS coordinates easier to use and already used by every GPS unit in existence.
Because trying to say im at Lat <#> Minutes <#> Long <#> is impossible for people to remember.
But by providing a simple 3 word phrase can the Muggles of the world provide a specific location.
You don't remember, you send via email, facebook, or text.
In any case, the means of transportation is way more simple to remember, email, text 3 words than it is to send Latitude Longitude coordinates. . .
Every modern messaging app has the ability to pull in your current location. I did this on Saturday to help my brother and sister-in-law get to us when we were in Boston.
Modern apps.... third world countries barely have electricity. Much less a phone to send their exact location to emergency responders.
Which, oddly, isn't true. They have no electricity but even tribes in Africa and Australia have cell or sat phones. It's been well documented.
I was working on a project that was created by that fact in central Africa last weekend!
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@dustinb3403 said in Three Word Address:
@scottalanmiller said in Three Word Address:
@dustinb3403 said in Three Word Address:
Think of it like this,
How many people right now can list their exact latitude and longitude ?
With a system like this, you can simply remember it.
All of us. that's my point exactly.
Bullshit.
Off the top of your head give me your exact latitude longitude and minutes.
No Cheating.
Why would I want to do that? I have a device I'm typing at and in my pocket that can give me that information at the tap of the screen or click of a button. Why would I want to memorize useless information?
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@dustinb3403 said in Three Word Address:
I'm done with the conversation.
People are just being haters to hate.
Just asking for a use case.
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@scottalanmiller said in Three Word Address:
@dustinb3403 said in Three Word Address:
I'm done with the conversation.
People are just being haters to hate.
Just asking for a use case.
Scott did you even watch the video? A case was directly presented in the video.
