One of the issues with What3Words.

German hiker in the UK: I need help. My what three words location is
///aufgetragen.bauxit.lockt

Rescue: Wait a minute, I can't enter that. Can you change your What3Words app to English.

(A couple of minutes after fiddling with settings)

The German hiker sees
///analogy.guidebook.trickling

I don't know these words. Maybe Anal loggy guidebook treekling.

Rescue: Hmm, "Anal loggy guidebook treacele-ing" That's four words. Let me try the first three...

#What3Words #WhatThreeWords #BadIdea

@alice

Q: Do you use What Three Words?
A: No.

What Three Words has been shown to be inadequate and even dangerous for emergency services use.

There's a website listing the many failures at https://w3w.me.ss/

It's probably OK for pizza delivery, if you're willing to install yet another corporate surveillance app...

#WhatThreeWords #W3W

Flying Fink’s Falling – Ep. 50

In which a flying fink’s falling, we head to the cinema early, venture south of the river, partake of potentially perilous potions, and hear music for turtles. === If you’d like to hear us once more talking to friends who aren’t there, do click on the player one more time…. […]

https://offgrid.tlmb.net/2025/03/30/flying-finks-falling-ep-50/

Do you all know about the website, 'What Three Words'? It is a brilliant way of pinpointing your address so that you never lose another parcel.

Or would be, if we could persuade delivery companies to adopt it.

Buckingham Palace is so large it seems to have several possibilities, but one is
///method.fever.cakes

Here is the main URL https://map.what3words.com/

Use the map to scroll to your location....

#WhatThreeWords