Episode 07: What3words and why

What is what3words? what3words is a really simple way to talk about location. We have assigned each 3m square in the world a unique 3 word address that will never change. For example, filled.count.soap marks the exact entrance to what3words’ London headquarters. 3 word addresses are easy to say and share, and are as accurate as GPS coordinates.

What you’ll learn in this episode:

• Why you should use a 3 word address for package deliveries to your home.
• Why you should have a 3 word address for your business.
• Why you should use a 3 word address while at a sporting event.
• Why you should have the What3words app on your phone

“If you're ordering a pizza to your home, if you're getting a package delivered from something you've bought online, if you want to get a taxi to somewhere ; we want you to be able to put in a three-word address just as if you were putting in something else, but knowing that it's far more accurate and far easier, and just works wherever you are in the world” – Chris Sheldrick

Additional resources:

• Apps: Google: Apple:
• Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/what3words/
• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/what3words
• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/what3words
• Ted Talk: https://www.ted.com/talks/chris_sheldrick_a_precise_three_word_address_for_every_place_on_earth
• Twitter: https://twitter.com/what3words
• Website: https://what3words.com/
• YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/what3words

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With what3words, Chris Sheldrick and his team have divided the entire planet into three-meter squares and assigned each a unique, three-word identifier, like insisting.cycle.minutes, which will take you right to the main door (at the time this podcast was published) or provider.enjoyed.plot which will take you right to the scale house door at Real Alloy in Wabash, Indiana, giving a precise address to the billions of people worldwide who don't have one.

Examples of where this is beneficial:

• Truck drivers – pinpoints exact docks and delivers locations.
• Emergency services, when they are trying to find a location where they need to get to a farmer who had a heart attack in a hayfield in 1000 acres.
• When you take your family to a football or baseball game, marking where you parked you...