I think your did should be the what3words tile of where you…

Samuel

@samuel.fm

I think your did should be the what3words tile of where you were standing when you signed up

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David Buchanan 27 Sept 2023

did:w3w

조쉬의 가장 친한 친구 27 Sept 2023

I'm surprised this what3words never caught on fully. It's a real cool and clever idea, unless it did and I don't know.

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Billy 27 Sept 2023

It has a lot of flaws sadly too, I don't have the posts to hand but the big issue is, despite what they said, many plurals (i.e. "hand.apple.dog" vs "handS.apple.dog") are too close to be safe, and if you're on some 2G connection for emergencies (which is how its pushed here)..

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Billy 27 Sept 2023

..you might not hear the difference. I know RAC UK (and maybe also AA?) have a very small website you can reliably load on very low Internet connection and send your GPS location through, and making an emergency call in Europe/US automatically sends your GPS data along

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David Buchanan 27 Sept 2023

And, all the usability issues aside, it's proprietary

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f.28 Sept 2023

there was at least one attempt at creating an open alternative using different a algorithm/vocabulary called WhatFreeWords

조쉬의 가장 친한 친구 27 Sept 2023

All I know is the first time I heard of it and used it I thought, holy shit this is such a good idea. Haven't seen it mentioned or talked about in a long time.