The Atlantic has posted an interesting story about What3Words, a British startup firm that has divided the earth into 57,000,000,000,000 [57 trillion] three by three meter squares, and assigned a three-word name to each square in order to map physical locations. One of the squares that identifies my office, for instance, is galaxy.mental.yarn. Mongolia is the first country that has signed up to use the scheme as its official postal system. It will be interesting to see if other countries follow suit.
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Kate Davis — June 23, 2016
This is pretty cool and kind of intriguing. Also, a little confusing. I like the words for my home location more than office locale.
Kate Davis — June 23, 2016
But, I also think it makes a lot of sense for cities/countries with no street names..... kind of.
Walt Jacobs — July 1, 2016
It will indeed be interesting to see if this system takes off, Kate!