What3words

I'm sure they're too smart to do that.

Oh, and by the way, in terms of the preparation, the other thing to call back to our previous episode, we talked about an app called What3Words, W3W.

And that's one that gives you, well, there's a three-word code for every three meters square on planet Earth.

So if you were going to call for help, you should not just rely on the geolocation beacon of that device.

So that triggers the system.

Does it work on like an Eastings and Northings or a What3Words or a? So we got our own location that we geolocate people from within their app.

We can pull off all those things.

Do you need to ignore things that long? All this can be pulled off of it.

But after that, we are going to go into something that you guys can get involved with on socials if we remember to post about it.

The What3Words.

Oh, my God.

And thanks to the peeps, mostly on Instagram, who got involved with this one.

Do you want to let everybody know what the clues were? Yes.

Milo.

The words related to this Pokemon for What3Words were Horny from myself, Kalos from Ian, and Ride from Marco.

Yes.

tour.

Well, anyway, things that we don't need to worry about missing because we're going to keep this going is we've got the results of last week's What Three Words, haven't we, guys?

Oh, my God.

And Ian gets to push another jingle.

Get the community buzzing.

And we will reveal the answer in next week's show.

I love what three words, Ian.

It's good.

Rudy Arthur at Exeter in PLOS 1, October 2023.

A critical analysis of the What3Words geocoding algorithm.

Two findings, and both are simulation-based.

First, most simulated addresses have one or more word triples they could be confused with.

Yeah.

You could almost imagine it with the, you know, with the What3words thing.

Oh, yeah.

You know, where you can probably say, well, actually you give a What3words, um, location, and the, and the drone will fly to that.

And, and I guess then, you know, it's on you that, that you're giving that drone a, an adequately, um, open space in order to be able to winch your [chuckles] delivery down to you.

Uh, presumably if it's not actually landing and it is actually sort of winching it down to you, then it, it sort of probably matters less and it can do it, you know, either, you know, somewhere outside your home, I guess.

I still, this is still like magic to me.

It's called what3words.com, and just like randomly generated usernames on like Reddit, where it'll be like affable squirrel fucker or [laughs] whatever.

Yeah.

Or, you know, like complicated raccoon penis.

I think it's in a three-meter square.

Uh, let me, let me pop and see exactly what the, the deal is.

Where's the about? It's, uh, if you go to what3words.com, you can check this out.

It's an addressing system that I wish we would embrace and use for everything.

That access point, if it's given, is enough to get someone where they need to be.

Yeah, uh, people can choose the system that suits their needs, but that system should not be What3words.

Look, this whole mess is not inevitable.

Collective public ingenuity is near limitless if directed by good leadership and clear purpose.

If there's any message you should take away from this sorry little tale other than, "Lol, What3words are about to go down the toilet," it is this: we can do better.

And what do you think, folks? You know, let's, let's briefly go big face and see what you're saying because what, what time is it now? How are we doing time-wise? Well, uh, we've, we've got some time.

Let's briefly go big face and catch up with the, uh, catch up with some chat that's going on here.

Uh, plus codes long car is the one I was referring to.

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