Re:What3Words – The Algorithm
by cybergibbons on Sunday May 02, 2021 @01:48PM
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It's promoted for use in search and rescue, so other bands are in use.
I used to do SAR. Lost persons do a terrible job of communicating because they are afraid and often emotionally and physically drained. But if you have them on a radio or a cell phone, you can generally locate them without the persons direct assistance.
One of the many things that really annoys me about W3W is that it sucks for actual navigation. If I am at waffle.tire.sigh is that north or south of keys.sad.tree? Am I heading in the right direction?
Re:What3Words – The Algorithm
by cybergibbons on Sunday May 02, 2021 @03:38PM
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Yeah, multiple MRT members have contacted me to say this is a real struggle. If someone is on the move, it's virtually impossible to work out what direction they are going.
To be fair, if the lookup table is created properly, the majority of habited locations should be within the first two bands, which means you're really only using 2500, or 5000 of those words. That was the whole point of the banding system, I assume.