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I am an iPhone user. Maybe I am just missing it, but why not the latitude and longitude from the compass app?
Great that soud interesting!
But what access do I have to give on my cell phone to get this free service?
Ground Zero in the Praza do Obridioro is 42°52'49.76"N 8°32'44.57"W mistype it by ONE digit as 42°53'49.76"N 8°32'44.57"W and you'll be about 1800m out of position.I am an iPhone user. Maybe I am just missing it, but why not the latitude and longitude from the compass app?
Imagine what could happen with auto-correct. I hadn't thought of that.Roughly the same spot in What3Words is ///panels.fetch.farmed mistype THAT by one letter and you get to choose:
A great question. There are a couple of reasons that I know of relating to how the whole science of geo-location has developed over time. On my Garmin handheld, there are options for 43 different position formats, 112 different map datum sets and 22 different map spheroids. In Australia, the difference between a position recorded and reported using an earlier Australian Geodetic datum and being displayed using the WGS84 datum and spheroid could be as much as 700 metres. Even for providing a lat/long position, there are three different formats.I am an iPhone user. Maybe I am just missing it, but why not the latitude and longitude from the compass app?
Oh, I think we all know iPhone users are in need of help . . .Hey not to take away from the excitement of the What3Words app, but iPhone users may want to familiarize themselves with Emergency SOS. Hopefully, neither are ever needed.
¡Buena suerte!
I used your tips, and discovered, like you did, that the 3words I used in my camino landed me somewhere in the Pacific Ocean. Google, maps.me - too much for them on my little old iphone, but apple maps came out of the closet and landed me right there! So then I picked up three other words: faith hope and charity. Apple maps pointed me towards 45 High Street London. So, what do I do now?!!! Thank goodness I am actually quite safe, at home, as it would take me so long to get the hang of this - just like the maps i did my best to follow with all the help I got, gps stuff. In the end, no gps was required. Elle Bieling and Johnnie Walker came up winners.I've been familar with What3Words for awhile and I like the idea. Because of the recent posts I downloaded the app to include with some other GPS apps I have. I'm not thrilled with it. If you have downloaded it I suggest that you do the following.
Using the stacked lines icon (a.k.a hamburger) choose Settings and then Shared settings. Pick the Explainer text, Weblink, Latitude and longtitude (I prefer Decimal degrees because many GPS programs and apps use it), then, for Share in another language, pick Spanish.
During this you should be shown what an email will contain if you want to share your location: the 3 words used in English, different 3 words that the Spanish police might prefer to use, and lat. and long. coordinates too in case your rescuers think about the three words, WTF?
Knowing you I'm not sure if this is a wind up or notI used your tips, and discovered, like you did, that the 3words I used in my camino landed me somewhere in the Pacific Ocean. Google, maps.me - too much for them on my little old iphone, but apple maps came out of the closet and landed me right there! So then I picked up three other words: faith hope and charity. Apple maps pointed me towards 45 High Street London. So, what do I do now?!!! Thank goodness I am actually quite safe, at home, as it would take me so long to get the hang of this - just like the maps i did my best to follow with all the help I got, gps stuff. In the end, no gps was required. Elle Bieling and Johnnie Walker came up winners.
Hate to say it, but not a wind up! I once spent a fortune on classical guitar lessons. At the end of a year I was able to play this famous pieceKnowing you I'm not sure if this is a wind up or not
Isn't that "Barwick Green"? As a poor guitar player and even worse ukulele one you have my sympathies.Hate to say it, but not a wind up! I once spent a fortune on classical guitar lessons. At the end of a year I was able to play this famous pieceda-da-da-da-da-da-da-da, da-da-da-da-da-dada). That was it. Like a wooden top. I have a good ear, well not so good now in some conditions, and a sense of rhythm - but there is a breakdown between my brain and my hands. I am challenged. Some say stubborn...I think it is logic, yes! That is what is wrong with me! illogical. Does that fit, Jeff?
Just checked with my resident expert - Ode to Joy. Currently at pets.coherent. and another word. Can't give away my location, can I? not when I am safely at home. Have a good day. Just back from pool, off now to walk to get some fish - it is Friday after all. Just joking. I just love fish and it is a lovely day.Isn't that "Barwick Green"? As a poor guitar player and even worse ukulele one you have my sympathies.
With what3words you don't get to pick the words - they've been assigned by the company but you can use it to play an interesting game . . . pick three words and see where it takes you.
We used the app on a long, drawn out highway construction scheme here in the SE of England and it was especially useful to our Ecological Sciences Team except you'd get cryptic messages like "all heavy construction plant to be kept out of banana.cream.pie until GCNs have been relocated" (GCN - Great Crested Newts, a protected species in Europe, extremely rare except all over SE England whenever you want to carry out construction works)
I'm now going to have to look up ///banana.cream.pie to see where it really is before going for a walk in the woods from ///shippers.stack.dragons
A Jewish friend in older times at the college cafeteria kept being mistaken for an observant RC. His reply was "I like fish and it is only on the menu Fridays".Just back from pool, off now to walk to get some fish - it is Friday after all. Just joking. I just love fish and it is a lovely day.
Sadly there's no ///banana.cream.pieJust checked with my resident expert - Ode to Joy. Currently at pets.coherent. and another word. Can't give away my location, can I? not when I am safely at home. Have a good day. Just back from pool, off now to walk to get some fish - it is Friday after all. Just joking. I just love fish and it is a lovely day.
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