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On 23/11/2019 20:33, occam wrote:
On 23/11/2019 14:42, David wrote:
Give me just ONE set of three words for your property and I'll see if I
can find you.

///recliner.sprays.says

(only one letter is wrong.)

That seems to say it all! :-D

You did scroll right down - to note that I was joking, didn't you?!!!

On 23/11/2019 21:37, Carlos E.R. wrote:
On 23/11/2019 21.22, nospam wrote:
In article , occam
wrote:

Get one letter wrong in any of the words, and your GPS might take you to
the other side of the planet. Now would you like to order an Uber?
that can't happen.

Check these two addresses:

///liners.badge.spout and

///lines.badge.spout

(easy mistake to make when you are jotting down an address over the phone.)

it's difficult to confuse lines and liners, especially on the phone.

Very easy if you don't speak English.

what3words is available in over 35 languages, including: Afrikaans,
Arabic, Bahasa Indonesia, Bahasa Malaysia, Bengali, Bulgarian, Chinese,
Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hindi,
Hungarian, isiXhosa, isiZulu, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Marathi,
Mongolian, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Spanish,
Swahili, Swedish, Tamil, Telugu, Thai and Turkish.

https://what3words.com/about-us/

On Sat, 23 Nov 2019 23:15:10 +0000, David
wrote:

On 23/11/2019 20:33, occam wrote:
On 23/11/2019 14:42, David wrote:
Give me just ONE set of three words for your property and I'll see if I
can find you.

///recliner.sprays.says

(only one letter is wrong.)

That seems to say it all!

You have no idea what he's talking about, do you?
(if you do, give us a technical description IN YOUR OWN WORDS
of how it works - not the spam, we've had enough of that)

You did scroll right down - to note that I was joking, didn't you?!!!

You never joke. It's always phishing for someone to help you
STALK. Show a single thread you started that didn't fit my
description.

OT up. Thread is not OS related.

---------------
BD: I want people to "get to know me better. I have nothing to
hide".
I'm always here to help, this page was put up at BD's request,
rather, he said "Do it *NOW*!":

http://tekrider.net/pages/david-brooks-stalker.php

62 confirmed #FAKE_NYMS, most used in cybercrimes!
Google "David Brooks Devon"
[]'s

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We have a new policy - Google 2012

On 24/11/2019 00.19, David wrote:
On 23/11/2019 21:37, Carlos E.R. wrote:
On 23/11/2019 21.22, nospam wrote:
In article , occam
wrote:

Get one letter wrong in any of the words, and your GPS might take
you to
the other side of the planet.Â* Now would you like to order an Uber?
that can't happen.

Check these two addresses:

///liners.badge.spoutÂ* and

///lines.badge.spout

(easy mistake to make when you are jotting down an address over the
phone.)

it's difficult to confuse lines and liners, especially on the phone.

Very easy if you don't speak English.

what3words is available in over 35 languages, including: Afrikaans,
Arabic, Bahasa Indonesia, Bahasa Malaysia, Bengali, Bulgarian, Chinese,
Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hindi,
Hungarian, isiXhosa, isiZulu, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Marathi,
Mongolian, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Spanish,
Swahili, Swedish, Tamil, Telugu, Thai and Turkish.

https://what3words.com/about-us/

So it is not international, it is not unique, the words change according
to language. The classic coordinate system is unique and does not change
according to the user language.

If I'm visiting the USA and I call emergencies to give a location and
they don't understand my accent, they will not find me. I could give my
location in my language, but that would make things worse.

Perfect, yes, perfect.

--
Cheers, Carlos.

Steve H wrote:

That is kind of the point. It's self-checking in a way - if you phone
999 in the UK and you end up with a location in Australia, then you know
it's wrong and can re-check.

But if the location is say 5 miles out (I haven't tried to find a
credible pair of w3w co-ordinates that are that close) then you probably
don't get rescued.

On 24/11/2019 00:15, David wrote:
On 23/11/2019 20:33, occam wrote:
On 23/11/2019 14:42, David wrote:
Give me just ONE set of three words for your property and I'll see if I
can find you.

///recliner.sprays.says

(only one letter is wrong.)

That seems to say it all! :-D

You did scroll right down - to note that I was joking, didn't you?!!!


YOU didn't scroll down either - I was joking too.

On 24/11/2019 12:07, occam wrote:
On 24/11/2019 00:15, David wrote:
On 23/11/2019 20:33, occam wrote:
On 23/11/2019 14:42, David wrote:
Give me just ONE set of three words for your property and I'll see if I
can find you.

///recliner.sprays.says

(*only one letter is wrong*.)

That seems to say it all! :-D

You did scroll right down - to note that I was joking, didn't you?!!!


YOU didn't scroll down either - I was joking too.

Now I'm confused! ;-)

In Thunderbird, *your post doesn't scroll*.

When I typed your three words into the website on my iMac
https://what3words.com/daring.lion.race

........ this is what I saw:-

https://i.postimg.cc/CxLsbF2m/Screen...t-13-13-38.png

It works very well, each and every time I have experimented.

David

Andy Burns wrote:

Steve H wrote:

That is kind of the point. It's self-checking in a way - if you phone
999 in the UK and you end up with a location in Australia, then you know
it's wrong and can re-check.

But if the location is say 5 miles out (I haven't tried to find a
credible pair of w3w co-ordinates that are that close) then you probably
don't get rescued.

The system wouldn't let 2 locations with similar names be just 5 miles
apart.
--
Steve H

Steve H wrote:

Andy Burns wrote:

But if the location is say 5 miles out (I haven't tried to find a
credible pair of w3w co-ordinates that are that close) then you probably
don't get rescued.

The system wouldn't let 2 locations with similar names be just 5 miles
apart.

People have said it wouldn't allow homophones, or singular/plural words,
but it does, why are you so convinced it can't have two places nearby
with easily confused words?

On Sun, 24 Nov 2019 13:19:34 +0000, David
wrote:

Now I'm confused!

!!
That means you've sobered up enought to be aware you're
confused. And on a Sunday too, a sacred blackout day!
GratZ.

The thread is Off Topic . If you don't understand why, "we're
always here to help". "It's what we do".

---------------
BD: I want people to "get to know me better. I have nothing to
hide".
I'm always here to help, this page was put up at BD's request,
rather, he said "Do it *NOW*!":

http://tekrider.net/pages/david-brooks-stalker.php

62 confirmed #FAKE_NYMS, most used in cybercrimes!
Google "David Brooks Devon"
[]'s
--
Don't be evil - Google 2004
We have a new policy - Google 2012

"occam" wrote

|
| Sounds like a brilliant idea...until you stop to think about it for two
| seconds. In fact it is a stupid idea.
|
| My home, when split into 3x3meter squares, would have around 10
| 'addresses', some of which fall partially outside of my property.
|

Yes, but you can use any one of them to look up
your address and ZIP code. ZIP codes and other
national location codes have two fatal flaws:

1) They're easy to use.
2) They're free.

What3words solves both of those problems. This is
a wonderful demonstration of the brilliance that allowed
Britain to rule 1/4 of the world. Bill Gates must be
kicking himself that someome else is more brilliant at
taking other peoples' bucks than he is.

I spoke too soon. This thing is far more brilliant than
I at first realized. It solves numerous age-old problems.

The problem of how to force people to enable script in
their browser when they look up an address? SOLVED.

The problem of figuring out how to track people and
show them Google ads every time they look up an address?
SOLVED.

How to allow at least 3 companies to spy on you when
you visit a webpage? SOLVED.

How to wrap Google mapping services in a pointless
wrapper? SOLVED.

This is the most amazing thing since Rube Goldberg's
portable cigar lighter:

https://media.rubegoldberg.com/site/...t-1200x417.jpg

Mayayana wrote:

This thing is far more brilliant than
I at first realized. It solves numerous age-old problems.


If you think w3w is good, wait until you've used w3e :-)

https://what3emojis.com

"Andy Burns" wrote

| If you think w3w is good, wait until you've used w3e :-)
|
| https://what3emojis.com

Interesting. I guess one just can't overestimate the
brilliance of these guys. I wonder if that's what I found
in their script code. Their webpage pulls in Google
maps script and various other things. Among the muck
is their own script:

https://mapassets.what3words.com/map...in.df13c482.js

One of the tings I noticed in that was a very long list
of unicode character codes. Many are in a very high range,
like \uDDC2, apparently all for emojis.

In article , Andy Burns
wrote:


If you think w3w is good, wait until you've used w3e :-)

https://what3emojis.com

amusing, but the emojis aren't randomly scattered and some don't
display properly.