Mastodawn

Three young cygnets with their parents on a slipway beside the River Teign estuary.

#Devon #England #Swan #Canon #canonr50 f/6.3 1/512 92mm ISO400

#What3Words ///gained.shark.royal

Hunt Saboteurs gave found another #What3Words glitch, "struggling with venue" misplaced in a form instead places event at "struggling.with.venue", in the Atlantic Ocean : https://www.huntsabs.org.uk/national-trail-hunting-day-the-dog-that-didnt-bark/.

Incidentally, the number of "/" entered on the w3w website produces quite different suggestions, and, boy are there a lot of variants of struggle*.

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David Megginson 2d ago

@paul

(cont'd)

You need help from search and rescue (SAR):

SAR queries your phone

Phone determines lat/lon

Phone uses lat/lon to look up W3W in a database

Phone sends words to SAR.

SAR uses words to look up lat/lon in a database

SAR uses lat/lon to navigate to you and provide assistance.

Do you see any redundant steps in this workflow? 😉

#What3Words #geodata

Democracy Labs Jun 18

How to share your meeting point privately. Cómo compartir tu punto de encuentro de forma privada.
https://thedemlabs.org/2025/06/17/how-to-share-your-meeting-point-privately-como-compartir-tu-punto-de-encuentro-de-forma-privada/
#what3words

Cadu Silva

May 28

What3Words quer mudar a forma como o mundo é endereçado https://blog.cadu.cc/artigo/what3words-enderecos-mundo

#BlogCaduSilva #What3Words

What3Words quer mudar a forma como o mundo é endereçado

Já pensou se você pudesse memorizar apenas três palavras para saber o endereço de uma pessoa ou estabelecimento? Um mundo sem nomes de ruas, sem números, sem códigos postais, sem precisar de coordenadas geográficas. Esta é a proposta do What3Words. Ele divide o planeta em trilhões de quadradinhos que medem 3 por 3 metros quadrados. [...]

Cadu Silva

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