- Time of past OR future Camino
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I just read a fascinating article about a new technology/company that has mapped the whole world into 3 metre by 3 metre squares. There are about 57 trillion of these. But rather than try and give each a numerical grid reference, they worked out that in some languages (starting with English) there are several trillion more combinations of three common words. So they assigned three words to each square.
There's an article here from the UK Guardian about how this has enabled people previously without a registered address to fix their location and access all the typical support and identity that comes with having a home address
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/jun/23/the-gps-app-that-can-find-anyone-anywhere
The article is worth a read in its own right, but it got me thinking about how a forum like this might be able to use this technology to share grid points more universally (especially with old clogs like me who won't embrace GPS devices). I've recently been following the threads on the Viejo, Montana, Olvidado pages which are in the process of devising, updating and sharing the best pilgrim routes along the Cantabrian mountains. Key points such as markers, forks in the path and albergues could be easily identified and shared with all using this grid nomenclature. For example, I think I have pinpointed the tomb of St James as being at weekend.copying.doctor - but you might like to check by entering this into the search function at https://what3words.com
PS I tried to locate the 3-word name for Ivar's office door on Travesa de Universidade but couldn't quite remember the exact location, as it's been years since I've been there - Ivar?
Cheers, tom
There's an article here from the UK Guardian about how this has enabled people previously without a registered address to fix their location and access all the typical support and identity that comes with having a home address
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/jun/23/the-gps-app-that-can-find-anyone-anywhere
The article is worth a read in its own right, but it got me thinking about how a forum like this might be able to use this technology to share grid points more universally (especially with old clogs like me who won't embrace GPS devices). I've recently been following the threads on the Viejo, Montana, Olvidado pages which are in the process of devising, updating and sharing the best pilgrim routes along the Cantabrian mountains. Key points such as markers, forks in the path and albergues could be easily identified and shared with all using this grid nomenclature. For example, I think I have pinpointed the tomb of St James as being at weekend.copying.doctor - but you might like to check by entering this into the search function at https://what3words.com
PS I tried to locate the 3-word name for Ivar's office door on Travesa de Universidade but couldn't quite remember the exact location, as it's been years since I've been there - Ivar?
Cheers, tom