How do you share a location when that place doesn’t have an address? A grid with coordinates is an old and well working system, but coordinates are hard to remember in the head unless you write them down.
Now someone has come up with a new and interesting system called What3words. They have divided the earth into a grid of 3×3 meter squares and given each square 3 words that become the address of this square. One benefit of this is that also places in the world without a street address gets an address. It’s easy to say and remember 3 words, and with squares of 3x3m the addresses are more accurate than normal addresses. Now several map services support what3word addresses, like the Norwegian national mapping authorities map of Norway. I’m not sure if this will take off as a way to share a location, today it’s already relatively easy to share a map link to Google Maps or similar. And most smartphones for sale now has gps built in, so the exact location can be found. But still, an interesting idea.
Here is my location (the middle square of those that cover the small apartment I live in: