{"id":896,"date":"2016-06-22T17:33:35","date_gmt":"2016-06-22T22:33:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/newdean\/?p=896"},"modified":"2016-06-22T17:33:35","modified_gmt":"2016-06-22T22:33:35","slug":"what3words-postal-address-system","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/dean\/2016\/06\/22\/what3words-postal-address-system\/","title":{"rendered":"What3Words Postal Address System"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>The Atlantic<\/em> has posted an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/technology\/archive\/2016\/06\/the-most-interesting-story-about-postal-addresses-you-have-ever-read\/487160\/\" target=\"_blank\">interesting story about What3Words<\/a>, 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 <a href=\"https:\/\/map.what3words.com\/galaxy.mental.yarn\" target=\"_blank\">galaxy.mental.yarn<\/a>. <a href=\"http:\/\/qz.com\/705273\/mongolia-is-changing-all-its-addresses-to-three-word-phrases\/\" target=\"_blank\">Mongolia is the first country that has signed up to use the scheme as its official postal system<\/a>. It will be interesting to see if other countries follow suit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1927,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[12],"class_list":["post-896","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture","tag-technology"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/dean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/896","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/dean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/dean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/dean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1927"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/dean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=896"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/dean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/896\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":897,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/dean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/896\/revisions\/897"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/dean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=896"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/dean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=896"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/dean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=896"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}