Yes, but the best burrito EVER is in Botswana!
https://map.what3words.com/best.burrito.ever
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Subject: Re: [CTGIS-L] alternative to addressing
Who knew the best burrito was in china?
https://map.what3words.com/best.burrito.honest
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Subject: [CTGIS-L] alternative to addressing
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:
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Poor addressing costs businesses billions of dollars and hampers the growth and development of entire nations.
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Around 75% of the world (135+ countries), suffers from inadequate addressing.
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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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