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It’s not a perfect system clearly but we used the 3-word code when I worked in forestry because everyone needed to memorize some kind of coordinates for emergen
by acc_297 3y ago
It’s not a perfect system clearly but we used the 3-word code when I worked in forestry because everyone needed to memorize some kind of coordinates for emergencies requiring evacuation from our camp but nobody had a GPS or a map just an old beat up sat phone kept in the glove box
The words we had were pretty good ones something like banana-sink-trampoline I don’t remember now but using UTC or lat-long would definitely have been harder to memorize
If you get a bad set of three words it’s not so hard to choose a neighbouring set if I remember the grid was pretty fine grained I think our foreman “shopped around” for a nice easy set somewhere on the nearby logging road reasonably close to us
- Waterluvian 3y agoInstead of memorizing some set of words, have a proper emergency plan with a named set of locations. Militaries do this all the time. This basically replaces “okay so this is evacuation point Alfa” with “okay so this is evacuation point carrots-bacon-ovens” In either case you still must consult an additional source if you need it translated to a coordinate system. And if you mix up “oven” with “ovens” you might end up evacuating to the other side of the planet.
- acc_297 3y agothe 3 words aren’t for us they are exclusively for the search and rescue team who we talk to when buddy breaks his spine and needs an airlift And you can avoid the ovens vs oven problem by just picking a coordinate with good simple words the helicopter is fine to find you within a few hundred meters of your camp This system has been used extensively in remote resource extraction because humans in the pressure of an emergency can recall words and phrases better than numbers It works pretty well for this use case