{"id":3631,"date":"2015-04-28T09:55:39","date_gmt":"2015-04-28T13:55:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/peroty.com\/blog\/?p=3631"},"modified":"2015-04-28T10:01:53","modified_gmt":"2015-04-28T14:01:53","slug":"what3words-addressing-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peroty.com\/blog\/wrote-about\/what3words-addressing-the-world\/","title":{"rendered":"what3words | Addressing the world"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/what3words.com\/\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" height=\"4194\" width=\"629\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/peroty.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/w3w_uses_navigation-705x4701.jpg?resize=629%2C4194\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>\n  what3words is a global grid of 57 trillion 3mx3m squares. Each square has a 3 word address that can be communicated quickly, easily and with no ambiguity.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"http:\/\/what3words.com\/\">what3words | Addressing the world<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p>This is a fascinating project to give a location anywhere in the world when standard addressing fails or does not exist.<\/p>\n<p><strong>I take a train from <a href=\"http:\/\/map.what3words.com\/clown.stay.themes\">clown.stay.themes<\/a> to <a href=\"http:\/\/map.what3words.com\/palace.bride.single\">palace.bride.single<\/a>.<\/strong>&nbsp;Just be sure to get your words right. Trying to meet me near <a href=\"http:\/\/map.what3words.com\/palace.bridge.single\">palace.bridge.single<\/a> will not help you.<\/p>\n<p>Even in developed countries, addresses can change. In my lifetime (about 3 decades) my father&#8217;s address has changed three times.<\/p>\n<p>First, it was a Rural Route and a Box number: Route 2 Box 4794.<br \/>\nThen, when the county decided it needed to have real addresses to aid emergency response, it changed to 1511 Kimble Road. Finally, it has changed yet again to a new road name and number because of a shift in how the county decided to handle addressing.<\/p>\n<p>So even in the United States, 60 miles from the Washington, D.C. addressing is still a problem. He lives out near <a href=\"http:\/\/map.what3words.com\/hogs.dogs.improving\">hogs.dogs.improving<\/a> which is a fitting address for my hometown.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>what3words is a global grid of 57 trillion 3mx3m squares. Each square has a 3 word address that can be communicated quickly, easily and with no ambiguity. Source: what3words | Addressing the world This is a fascinating project to give a location anywhere in the world when standard addressing fails or does not exist. I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[836,835],"class_list":["post-3631","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-wrote-about","tag-addressing","tag-what3words"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/peroty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3631","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/peroty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/peroty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peroty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peroty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3631"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/peroty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3631\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3638,"href":"https:\/\/peroty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3631\/revisions\/3638"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/peroty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3631"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peroty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3631"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peroty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3631"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}