Who knew the best burrito was in china?

 

https://map.what3words.com/best.burrito.honest

 

 

 

 

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 and my favorite place to go on vacation is shining.carpentry.instants

 

I thought it was a pretty clever, and very ambitious, idea.

 

Meg McGaffin

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City of Milford, CT

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