3 words to address the world

3 words to address the worldTom Mursell

75% OF THE WORLD HAS INADEQUATE,POOR OR NO addressing SYSTEMS2

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IN THE OTHER 25% ADDRESSING CAN BE COSTLY & FRUSTRATING4

$50m UPS, things exist outside of street addressed areas4

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ADDRESSING AND GEOCODING AREEXPENSIVE & TIME CONSUMING

LANDMARK BASED ADDRESSING IS NOT SCALABLE

From the Tibas cemetery, 200 meters south, 300 meterswest, cross the train tracks, white two-story house.Costa Rica

THE ONLY OPTION IS ACCURATE BUTDIFFICULT TO REMEMBER & USE25 9 40.918 S 18 59 2.824 EPOOR COMMUNICATION OF LOCATIONINHIBITS THE USE & GROWTH OF GIS

WHAT3WORDS IS A NEW GLOBAL ADDRESS SYSTEM

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WORDS BEAT NUMBERS FOR COMMUNICATION

Human beings communicate in words, not numbers. Words easier to say, remember and use.

LANGUAGE EMPOWERS COMMUNITIES

Altho humans communicate in words, not all communicate in English, so made multilingual. w3w is available in 10 languages. Our goal is that anyone, anywhere can refer to what is around them using 3 words in their local language.

WORDS ALLOW INTELLIGENT DISTRIBUTION

More common words in each language are placed where the language is spoken. Not translations.

WORDS MEAN YOU CAN SPOT ERRORS

Weve placed

A common LOCATION language

Use anywhere, with anyone.

BEING USED TO MANAGE MAJOR EVENTS

BEING USED TO MANAGE DATA IN GIS

BEING USED TO MANAGE ASSETS

I was receiving inaccurate lat/long information (DMS in WGS 84) from some non geospatialI showed them how to use the what3words app and asked them to send the three wordsThis application has saved me a lot of time... Heather Hoelting, MetCom 911, Colorado.

BEING USED TO NAVIGATE EASIER

BEING USED TO DELIVER PACKAGES

BEING USED BY THE UN TO REPORT DISASTERS

EMERGENCY RESPONSE

AVAILABLE IN COMMAND & CONTROL ROOMS

BEING USED TO ENGAGE THE PUBLIC WITH GIS

WE HAVE OUR OWN FREE MOBILE APPSw3w.co/map w3w.co/ios w3w.co/android

w3w.co/apiBUILD WITH W3W API & SDKs

BUILD ON TOP OF FME

FME EXAMPLE WORKFLOW FARM DELIVERIES

1. Customer delivery locations stored on a map e.g. KML2. Use FME to discover 3 word address for a delivery location using what3wordsEncoder3. Have FME Server send SMS to driver with 3 word address4. Driver enters into Navmii to navigate to customer offline

My wife works as a dispatcher for a trucking company in an agricultural area of Canada. The company picks up grain from farms and delivers it to grain elevators for shipping.Dispatching trucks has the issue that farms rarely have a meaningful address. Traditionally farms are identified by a legal description based on theDominion Land Survey; for example (thank you Wikipedia) a farmer might live at SE-12-20-33-W1 (South East quarter of Section 12, Township 20, Range 33, West of the first meridian)!Plus even if the farmhouse had an address, it doesnt follow that the grain silo is at the same location; farms in Canada tend to be several hundred acres in size. So collection could be a long way from any single address point or you might be picking up directly from the field itself as the crops are harvested.So the problem is how to define pickup locations and transmit that information to a truck driver.I dont have a definite solution, but I reckon what3words with the bonus of a little FME Cloud automation would do the trick; something like the following:For each customer, lookup their pickup location in what3words and store that in a spreadsheetFor each new orderRun the spreadsheet through FMEConvert the what3words string to a set of coordinates (What3WordsDecoder transformer)Use the coordinates to calculate a route (ShortestPathFinder transformer)Have FME Server issue a notification to a driver, including a map of the route

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Thank you!Tom Murselltom@what3words.com