{"id":13585,"date":"2016-01-24T09:00:39","date_gmt":"2016-01-24T14:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/?p=13585"},"modified":"2016-01-20T16:54:23","modified_gmt":"2016-01-20T21:54:23","slug":"a-3-word-global-address-system","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/2016\/a-3-word-global-address-system\/","title":{"rendered":"A 3 Word Global Address System"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/011916_2336_A3WordGloba1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"639\" height=\"639\" \/><\/p>\n<p>What3words is a fascinating idea:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Reliable building addresses, while taken for granted in the west, are a luxury in many countries around the world.<\/li>\n<li>What3words is a service that has broken up the planet into 57 trillion squares measuring 3 meters (10 feet) by 3 meters.<\/li>\n<li>It then uses an algorithm to generate three words that can serve as that square&#8217;s address.<\/li>\n<li>As the words are simple and memorable they are easier to use than formal strings of latitude and longitude numbers.<\/li>\n<li>Offensive words have been removed, and the algorithm assigns longer words to places that few people are likely to inhabit like the middle of the ocean.<\/li>\n<li>The algorithm also makes sure that similar words are on different continents. &#8220;Table.Chair.Lamps&#8221; is in the United States while &#8220;Table.Chair.Lamp.&#8221; is in Australia.<\/li>\n<li>The system is available in 9 languages and will soon spread to more.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Read about it <a href=\"http:\/\/what3words.com\/about\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/what3words.com\/about\/\">What3words<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Via: <a href=\"http:\/\/marginalrevolution.com\/marginalrevolution\/2016\/01\/three-words-any-place.html\">Marginal Revolution<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What3words is a fascinating idea: Reliable building addresses, while taken for granted in the west, are a luxury in many countries around the world. What3words is a service that has broken up the planet into 57 trillion squares measuring 3 meters (10 feet) by 3 meters. It then uses an algorithm to generate three words [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13584,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13585","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-bulletin"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/011916_2336_A3WordGloba1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13585","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13585"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13585\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13601,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13585\/revisions\/13601"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13584"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13585"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13585"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13585"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}