On 30/11/15 11:59, Colin Smale wrote: > I think their big attraction is the 75% (their figure) of the world that > doesn't have a functional address system. The added value in the UK is > indeed zero. In some tribal village in Africa for example where an > address might not get any better than "3rd mud hut on the left after the > group of 3 trees" the idea of giving all the dwellings a simple address > might open the world of e-commerce up to them. They will have an address > to use, and Amazon's drones will be able to find them. Maybe not today, > maybe not even tomorrow, but soon.
But 'What3words' can't actually locate them ... you HAVE to convert it to the GPS coordinates. Third hut on the left at least works without needing a mobile phone :) Doing the reverse process you need an accurate GPS system to establish the coordinates before you can convert that TO a w3w title. If the mapping system is only accurate to 10mts your android drone has a selection of targets. I've just looked up my own address in the UK and depending on which map overlay I select I got four different answers, some the next door addresses. -- Lester Caine - G8HFL ----------------------------- Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://lsces.co.uk EnquirySolve - http://enquirysolve.com/ Model Engineers Digital Workshop - http://medw.co.uk Rainbow Digital Media - http://rainbowdigitalmedia.co.uk _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
