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Other Stuff => Misc / Open => Topic started by: Greg65 on August 15, 2019, 10:08:07 AM

Title: Where are you?
Post by: Greg65 on August 15, 2019, 10:08:07 AM

Don’t worry I’m not after you on behalf of a secret government dept.

No this is about letting people know where you are when you are out and about enjoying your two wheel trip and you come across an incident, cause we are safe riders and don’t have incidents!

Up to now I had OS Locate (Ordnance Survey) App which gave a good old fashioned Northing and Easting grid reference as well as a built in compass. However seen a BBC news article about an App called What3words, that defines a 3 meter box with the use of words. It’s free and may well be worth having it sitting on your phone just in case.

Cheers all,
Greg

Title: Re: Where are you?
Post by: K2-K6 on August 15, 2019, 10:29:05 AM

Looks interesting doesn't it.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/What3words

Could help out in many situations of trying to coordinate meeting etc.

Title: Re: Where are you?
Post by: mike the bike on August 15, 2019, 12:22:15 PM

It will be interesting to see if it catches on.

Title: Re: Where are you?
Post by: Greg65 on August 15, 2019, 12:51:08 PM

Thought I was one up on my son by sending him the details. No he used it all last weekend at the Boomtown festival to meet up with friends. Made life a lot easier on a massive spread out location.