Luckily nosotros tin purpose latitude together with longitude to accurately position whatever place on a map. However a latitude together with a longitude are hard to remember. To overcome this occupation a position out of other place coding systems own got been invented to position locations amongst to a greater extent than easily remembered identifiable codes.
One of the best place codes has been devised yesteryear What3Words. The What3Words place coding arrangement divides the basis into 57 trillion 3 x 3 meter squares. Each of those squares tin locomote uniquely identified amongst but 3 words. If you lot know the right 3 words you lot tin straight off discovery whatever place inward the world.
One of the biggest assets of What3Three is the purpose of but 3 easily remembered mutual words to stand upward for each 3x3 meter foursquare on the planet. Imagine, for example, that you lot wishing to consider your friends at a specific topographic point inward the park. It could locomote a place that doesn't own got an exact address, such every bit beneath a detail tree. With What3Words you lot but quest to say your friends to consider you lot at 'grow longer bottle' together with they tin easily discovery the exact topographic point using the What3Words desktop, Android or iOS app.
Google has at nowadays too released its ain Open Location Code. The novel Open Location Code uses a sequence of characters to position locations around the world. The get-go 4 characters inward an Open Location Code depict a ane bird latitude yesteryear ane bird longitude area, aligned on degrees.
To larn a code for a smaller expanse characters are added to the code. Adding ii farther characters to the code, reduces the expanse to 1/20th of a bird yesteryear 1/20th of a bird inside the previous area. And thence on - each duad of characters reduces the expanse to 1/400th of the previous area.
Currently Google Maps doesn't back upward Open Location Codes. However, because Open Location Code is supported yesteryear Google this novel arrangement could locomote worrying for other place coding systems. If Google always add together back upward for Open Location Code to Google Maps together with thence the arrangement could truly take-off.
However the biggest occupation of Open Location Codes is that the codes themselves aren't really memorable. The Open Location Code for Times Square inward New York is '+87G8.Q257HW'. The What3Words code for Times Square is 'bolts.native.year'. The What3Words code is non solely to a greater extent than memorable it too easier to communicate to others, for instance if you lot quest to transcend on the code to a delivery service over the phone.
I don't intend What3Words volition locomote worrying but yet.
