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This is pretty interesting concept I recently read about. A company called what3words has developed an alternative to lat/long. They split up the word into a 3m grid and assign 3 random words to each square. The premise is that since the majority of the world doesn't use alpha-numeric addressing this system is a viable alternative for geolocating and addressing. Their website says: * Poor addressing costs businesses billions of dollars and hampers the growth and development of entire nations. * Around 75% of the world (135+ countries), suffers from inadequate addressing. * 4 billion people are invisible, unable to get deliveries or receive aid, and unable to exercise their rights as citizens So for example I work at deals.cycles.faster<http://w3w.co/deals.cycles.faster> and my favorite place to go on vacation is shining.carpentry.instants<http://w3w.co/shining.carpentry.instants> I thought it was a pretty clever, and very ambitious, idea. Meg McGaffin GIS Analyst City of Milford, CT<http://www.ci.milford.ct.us/> 203-783-3232 [log in to unmask] CT GIS User Network<http://ctgis.uconn.edu/index.htm> ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This list (CTGIS-L) is an unmoderated discussion list for all CT GIS Users. If you no longer wish to receive e-mail from this list, you can remove yourself by going to http://listserv.uconn.edu/ctgis-l.html