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Trin Mar 2019 4:31pm, 27 Mar 2019 531 posts	Quote Pin Trin There could be a slight flaw because marathon.long.outing is in Lincoln, North Dakota, but marathons.long.outing is in Craig, Alaska. Correct me if I'm wrong but aren't they quite far apart? So if someone needed urgent help in Craig, Alaska they could be waiting a long time if the emergency services head off to North Dakota
Alice the Camel Mar 2019 4:33pm, 27 Mar 2019 3,744 posts	Quote Pin Alice the Camel I don’t get why the emergency services are trialling it...I’m not very techno literate, but doesn’t your phone gps pinpoint location without needing 3 words?
LazyDaisy Mar 2019 4:56pm, 27 Mar 2019 26,159 posts	Quote Pin LazyDaisy Yes it does Alice but it isn't easy to share that with the emergency services (unless you do a 'share my location' thing on Whatsapp, and I believe that is only accurate to more metres than what3 words). I suppose you could take a screenshot of a map showing your location and share that, but the w3w thing would be a lot simpler. (Note, I may be quite wrong in what I've just said as I too am not very techie )
larkim Mar 2019 5:01pm, 27 Mar 2019 7,157 posts	Quote Pin larkim i think the issue is that giving out coordinates is fraught with error - transposed digits, different coordinate formats, misheard numbers etc etc. But a small difference in a coordinate could end up with a nonetheless reasonably expected proximity - i.e. 53.01010, 002.010101 is close to 53.01100, 002.010101 but marathons.long.ultra is a long way from marathon.long.ultra so you'd immediately know it was wrong.
Alice the Camel Mar 2019 5:06pm, 27 Mar 2019 3,745 posts	Quote Pin Alice the Camel But when I broke down on a motorway, I didn’t give coordinates...I switched on location sharing (or something- they told me what to do!) and the breakdown people could see where I was.
Meglet Mar 2019 5:11pm, 27 Mar 2019 20,130 posts	Quote Pin Meglet There was an article on bbc on why it was useful. It’s more easy to share than coordinates, remember a lot of people won’t be tech literate, I believe emergency services can send a link to click. If your phone is running low you’d only need enough juice to identify the three words and transmit, I guess, so that you’re not needing to stay connected. And if it works on GPS presumably you wouldn’t need a phone signal in the middle of nowhere? (I first heard about it via a mountain rescue site, I think). That begs the question how you’d let people know the location of you have no signal, but a text can sometimes get through where signal is poor.
Groundhog Mar 2019 7:28pm, 27 Mar 2019 358 posts	Quote Pin Groundhog Trin, the makers did say the didn't want similar names near each other, so they would appear unique in their area. It would mean a simple typo could take you half way round the world
Groundhog Mar 2019 7:31pm, 27 Mar 2019 359 posts	Quote Pin Groundhog Back to the game w3w.co deep.ocean.fish is near Wallingborough fire station.
Trin Mar 2019 8:30pm, 27 Mar 2019 532 posts	Quote Pin Trin w3w.co is in East Kilbride (I was looking for Brexit rather than exit )
Jambomo Mar 2019 8:46pm, 27 Mar 2019 6,785 posts	Quote Pin Jambomo Tee hee hee 😂😂😂