TED lecture - this could save your life!

David wrote:

Did you scroll down, Andy Burns?!!!

I did see all the "spoiler space" when I replied, but the "sig" had been
stripped by then.

Basil Jet wrote:

Do you really think they chose book, look, boot and loot as four of the
words?

well 3 out of four, plus a few homophones for good measure

https://what3words.com/book.look.boot
https://what3words.com/buck.luck.boot

It is just too easy to find bad examples with w3w, it's a terrible system

On 23/11/2019 15:05, Andy Burns wrote:
David wrote:

Did you scroll down, Andy Burns?!!!

I did see all the "spoiler space" when I replied, but the "sig" had been
stripped by then.

OK - Accepted! :-)

On Sat, 23 Nov 2019 13:42:17 +0000, David
wrote:

Let me check from here.

Give me just ONE set of three words for your property and I'll see if I
can find you.

................

His phone number would have less digits. Hint: If you want to
date, ask for the number.
(I don't think he'll accept, though).

OT up, thread not Win 10 related. It never was.

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On 23/11/2019 15:14, Andy Burns wrote:
Basil Jet wrote:

Do you really think they chose book, look, boot and loot as four of
the words?

well 3 out of four, plus a few homophones for good measure

https://what3words.com/book.look.boot
https://what3words.com/buck.luck.boot

It is just too easy to find bad examples with w3w, it's a terrible system

I totally lost that argument. Congrats.

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On 22/11/2019 23:31, Eric Stevens wrote:
On Fri, 22 Nov 2019 22:50:29 +0000, David
wrote:


*Why you should listen*

It's a fundamental logistical problem: not everyone, or everywhere, has
a traditional address, and GPS coordinates can be tough to use. While
working in the music industry, Chris Sheldrick noticed that bands and
equipment kept getting lost on the way to gigs, and he took up the
mission to create a better addressing system for the world. He worked
with a mathematician friend to devise the what3words algorithm that has
named every 3-metre square in the world. Started in 2013, the system is
being used by eight national postal services, and has a range of
integration partners across the world in fields as varied as
humanitarian aid, logistics, and in-car navigation.

https://www.ted.com/talks/chris_shel...place_on_earth

Chris Sheldrick is providing a precise and simple way to talk about
location, by dividing the world into a grid of three-meter by
three-meter squares and assigning each one a unique three-word address.

How do you tile a sphere in squares?

You globetard!

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On 11/22/19 5:31 PM, Eric Stevens wrote:

[snip]

How do you tile a sphere in squares?

The squares would have to be distorted to fit, something related to the
distortion that makes Greenland huge on a normal world map.

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On 23 Nov 2019, David wrote
(in article ):

On 23/11/2019 14:42, Wolffan wrote:
On 23 Nov 2019, David wrote
(in article ):

On 23/11/2019 14:08, Andy Burns wrote:
David wrote:

occam wrote:

My home, when split into 3x3meter squares, would have around 10
'addresses', some of which fall partially outside of my property.
When you examine the ten 3-word 'addresses' for the property, you would
have NO clue they belong to the same physical property.
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?

Let me check from here.
Give me just ONE set of three words for your property and I'll ...

... stalk you forever

Did you scroll down, Andy Burns?!!!

No need.

Yes, there was.

nope. We’ve seen you in action before. Stalking is what you do. That, and
lying, and trolling, and drinking to excess, and murdering your own children.
Filicide.

"nospam" wrote in message
...
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.

Yes it can. I looked up one of the WTW phrases for my house and then typed
in the plural of a word instead the singular by mistake. It took me to
somewhere many thousands of miles away.

That sort of error could easily creep in when the words are read to a 999
operator. I don't think they've weeded out words which are spelled
differently but pronounced the same or similarly.

Brilliant idea which loses something in the implementation. At the very
least it needs some form of checksum to guard against typos and mondegreens.

On 23/11/2019 14:44, nospam 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.)

NY wrote:

Yes it can. I looked up one of the WTW phrases for my house and then typed
in the plural of a word instead the singular by mistake. It took me to
somewhere many thousands of miles away.

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.
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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.

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.)

On 23/11/2019 21.21, Steve H wrote:
NY wrote:

Yes it can. I looked up one of the WTW phrases for my house and then typed
in the plural of a word instead the singular by mistake. It took me to
somewhere many thousands of miles away.

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.

Bad design. Better add a checksum.

But I do not see what is wrong in using standard coordinates, latitude
and longitude. Could be given in base 28.


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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.

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