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That was a very interesting read! I've had W3W on my phone for a while now but never really needed to use it. On occasions I'd try finding my W3W in different p
by FerretFred 5y ago
That was a very interesting read! I've had W3W on my phone for a while now but never really needed to use it. On occasions I'd try finding my W3W in different parts of the house but didn't get reproducible results. Today was an eye-opener though as I used the W3W site to locate my position: all good.
Then I mis-typed my words and got a message "Invalid what3words address URL", but instead of not displaying anything it decided to re-locate me some 200+ miles away in The Strand, London, with 3 completely different words! WTF?! I have no idea how this happened, but if I was in an unsafe state and quoted these incorrect words, I'd be in big trouble!
- chipsa 5y agoI believe the intent of having the slightly wrong words give a large difference in location was to make it obvious that a slightly wrong location string is wrong. If you know you're somewhere in Virginia, and it says England, they dispatcher can ask for it again.
- FerretFred 5y agoI would hope so :) But the fact that it "located" me somewhere else with 3 completely different words doesn't fill me with confidence!
- mbirth 5y agoThe intent maybe was there, but there are too many similar sounding or looking words that are much closer nearby where you can't be sure whether it's correct or not. There are also some news reports of rescue services ending up miles away from the caller because of a bad w3w code.