Ming the Merciless
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Unless emergency services or other companies adopt and can only work well with W3W. Then it becomes a problem. They of course should be using the simpler AMS system.
What3Words Going Mainstream?
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Unless emergency services or other companies adopt and can only work well with W3W. Then it becomes a problem. They of course should be using the simpler AMS system.
mjr
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If it is a vaguely similar idea, they will use their dodgy-looking patents to shut you down. How much do you have to spend on lawyers to prove dodgy-looking means invalid?
And w3w isn't suitable for emergencies anyway, unless you want to send mountain rescue to the wrong mountain if they don't hear an 's' on the end of a word: https://cybergibbons.com/security-2/why-what3words-is-not-suitable-for-safety-critical-applications/
keithmac
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No more ridiculous than the argument against W3W.
I'm sure we have to have a subscription to download maps from OS, that subscription is not FOC.
Why should W3W not gain any income for their work?.
Takes less than a minute to convert a W3W address to Coordinates.
Ming the Merciless
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You have one minute to convert this into OS Grid reference. Go!
”consultancy.invention.conceptions”
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Lovacott
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Ming the Merciless
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You need to change something to bring it into UK. The operator misheard the address. Try again.
mjr
Comfy armchair to one person & a plank to the next
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Show your workings and "I typed into a calculator" scores zero! (Wow, it's like when I used to teach...)
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Lovacott
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It's a strange point you are trying to make.
Would the operator have heard an OS grid reference any more clearly?
Would the person ringing the operator have known their OS grid reference location anyway?
It seems like you are simply arguing for the sake of argument.
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Lovacott
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Apparently it's the wrong answer because the operator miss heard one of the words.
Now, please add up the following.
1,271 +2,876 whilst bearing in mind that one or both of those numbers has been typed incorrectly.
swansonj
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Yes, they are making it free (within limits) at present so that they can build market dominance then start charging. It's not exactly a previously unheard of commercial strategy.
Funny thing, numbers. Each of them sounds almost entirely distinct (although in aviation they change four to fower, five to fife, and nine to niner), so that even if the quality of transmission is poor, they can still be correctly inferred.
Funny thing, phonetic alphabet. It's literally designed so that you cannot mishear.
Funny thing, hesitant.reticent.president. It's farking useless.
P.S. 4,147. Mental arithmetic. Who needs converters and calculators when your encoding system is intrinsically meaningful?
Funny thing, phonetic alphabet. It's literally designed so that you cannot mishear.
Funny thing, hesitant.reticent.president. It's farking useless.
P.S. 4,147. Mental arithmetic. Who needs converters and calculators when your encoding system is intrinsically meaningful?
Ming the Merciless
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Errors in grid references leads to small errors on the map. You do at least have an easy way of working out what the error was, and you’ll be in roughly the right area. With W3W that’s near impossible as you have ably demonstrated.
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Lovacott
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You posted up 3 words and asked for a grid reference.
I supplied the correct grid reference for those 3 words.
You are simply arguing for arguments sake.
