w3w.co/ will take you to the Tower Knowe car park at Kielder Forest. Prefix the three words with / or easier still, w3w.co/ and you have your location. It’s not hard to get the location from the three words either. Calling 999 for emergency services, or roadside assistance (AA, RAC, Green Flag etc) could be far less stressful by giving them rather than spelling out Knowe and Kielder. Three words to describe every three by three metre square. Imagine if everywhere on the planet, city, homes, seas or deserts could be found using just three words. Thankfully someone’s already solved that problem. What we need is a more elegant, simpler approach. If I said I was parked at 55.1739, -2.4746 then you’d have a more accurate position, but postcodes only work if there’s a building nearby and long/lat can be easily mistaken or forgotten. I could say I’m at Tower Knowe Visitors Centre, Kielder, NE48 1BX and you could find me fairly easily. When you’re not on the move and want to share a specific place, you’ll likely fall back to either an address, or longitude and latitude. When it comes to sharing your location it’s great, assuming you’re on the move. It automatically terminates the web page when you reach your destination, after a preset time, or by both (whichever comes first). It tracks the phone or tablet and shares your location using a one-off web address to whoever you want to share it with, and only them. Glympse is by far my favourite for sharing my location on the fly. While Google Latitude is no longer an option, others have stepped in. GPS has been part of smartphones since the days of the Nokia N95, but it’s far more accurate these days and the software has come on leaps and bounds. Knowing where you are these days is, for the most part, very simple. From online shopping to GPS, so much depends on letting others know where you are. For others, your longitude and latitude are necessary. Most of the time when services want to know your location, a post code and house number will suffice.
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