[ExI] what3words hipsters

[Dave Sill]

That's cool. Never heard of it. If you're using the phone app you can drag
the map around and it'll show you the words for each square.

-Dave

On Mon, Mar 25, 2019 at 12:04 PM <spike at rainier66.com> wrote:

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> Question please for What3Words gurus.  I see you can enter your address
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> https://what3words.com/
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> Cool, so I see that it divides the land into 3 meter x 3 meter squares and
> assigns every square 3 words, which is easier to remember than GPS
> coordinates.  The house where I grew up is forgets.gladness.pirate, but we
> didn’t have a lawn Chevy.  We couldn’t afford such luxuries as a lawn
> Chevy.  If we had one of those, we would have taken it apart and sold the
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> OK my question is this: since this is on a 3x3 grid, a typical house (Ok
> outside of Bay Area low cost housing units) have more than one square.
> Suppose I enter my address and my three words are egregious.old.fart.
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> Imagine that I don’t  like those particular three words, memorable as they
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> I see there are several other 3x3 squares which would identify my house.
> Hipsters, how do I find out the three words of the other squares?
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> spike
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