Google Maps actually allows reporting of all the same things that waze does now too. But feel like it is not used as much as the Waze user base and because of that sometimes it isn't as effective as waze.
@@mrcactus245 but this one relies on people having to download a whole new app instead of what already comes with their phone. Plus, Google has been working on a version of simple coordinates for years for a single short alphanumeric code. I bet this startup has a patent on their unique and valuable idea, and it will either be licensed eventually by Google/apple or they will take a similar idea but slightly different to avoid patent infringement.
Yes but this makes it much easier to understand and use for things such as voice commands. What 3 words is just a more simplistic version of coordinates
911 doesn’t get iMessage but they do understand the what3words protocol. Although, it’s definitely not perfect. There are a lot of homophones, a lot of words only differentiated by an “s”, etc.
Lol this existed in the 70s, all this does is take the GPS coords and convert the hex to a dictionary database. This is like 80s tech. Smart, but not high tech.
Co ordinates do the job but aren't very useful for a lay person because they're long and difficult to say and remember. If you were lost in Dartmoor, what would be easier to say: 50°31'54.4"N 3°55'25.3"W or worms.mild.galaxy? Or if you were meeting a friend somewhere. In countries which lack a good formal address system, this system could be gamechanging
@@grassytramtracks but why would u say the coordinates?? Just send them as a text through... whatsapp imessage.. heck even sms? And then u copy/paste that to go to the exact specific location??
@@RadDadisRad bruh if you're across the street from your friend I doubt you need your app to be precise to the square foot Just look up from your phone and there's your friend..
Probably gonna be about 5-10 years before mass adoption like qr codes came out a while back but no one cared until it was in every camera app by default.
We use it as fire/rescue to find the specific locations of people off trail! Learned about it in a search and rescue class that I took haven't used it much but definitely a good tool!
I’ve heard of this concept in the context of rescue operations. Like a lost hiker can tell the rescuers just three words and there is less margin for error than given coordinates.
Something interesting about this: I'm an architect from South Africa. In 2017 I was part of the team that won the African Architecture Awards beating out a lot bigger hitters from all over the world. Part of the reason was that the museum we designed was not made to be static but was made to serve as a work horse for the historic empoverished community it was in. One of the big problems with our informal settlements (shanty towns) is that direction and locality becomes a problem when you have km of tin shakes with no roads and small pathways. We used what3words as a system to start geo tagging businesses and events and as a method for people to send out their pop up businesses and events to attract others.
I learned this is dispatch school! If you call 911, and tell them your three words (obviously tell them that you're using the app) and they'll be able to find you. This has been around for years! ❤️❤️ Thank you for using your platform for bringing awareness to this!
@@aledmogs both are good and have their own pros and cons, I use both depending on situation. W3w is better in a way that you can memorize it and share it without a phone
@@aledmogs w3w also has an algorithm where two combinations that sound the same are far away from each but a misspelled coord will probably still look right until you're there. But yeah I have heard about it becoming pretty popular among emergency services which is cool, some island countries and mongolia actually adopted it as an official way address system
They have longitude and latitude, you can send anyone your coordinates at any time. You don’t need to send them three words/a picture, or a combination of those two.
To give your longitude and latitude to a similar level of accuracy as what3words, you'd need 5 decimal places which doesn't quite roll off the tongue and is hard to remember
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While i was at the police station waitng to bailout a friend for a night of drunk driving. I called my other friend and told him the "what three words" so we can meet up. I said to my friend "Airplane Explode Pieces". And that's how i ended up in jail with my friend i just bailed out.....
Everyone criticising the app, it was originally designed for ambulance services to locate people who are in the wilderness not near roads, so they could easily call-out their location.
The interesting thing about this app is that there’s already, at least according to legend a mapping system of the world based on assigning three word names to small segments of the world. I learned this from watching NCIS Los Angeles.
Saying three words is much quicker and easier than having to dictate 20-digit long coordinates which can be easily misheard over the phone. Very useful for conveying to emergency services exactly where you are.
I read that the initial purpose (or at least one of them) of this system was to facilitate an address for people who live in places where there are no explicit street names or house numbers, which is more common than you'd think (favelas for example). And yes, coordinates work as well, but this would be easier to remember and to communicate.
We use this at work to find our gas pressure stations that can be located in random fields or hidden from the road. Very useful app. Seen comments regarding google maps, this app lets you pick from several apps to navigate to it including google.
I use that all the time. Way before this video came out. And our local 911 center also is implementing it to help locate people who are in rural/ unfamiliar areas around here
Very handy app, in the UK the operators on the emergency line use it and will ask the person on the line for their what 3 words location. They ran ads urging people to download it
Normal people do not need that because we dont use iTrash, we just go to Google maps and get where ever we want to. And I tell this as a guy who does 50 000km a year.
That's amazing that this app is still around. I heard about them years ago on the Riding With Peterson TH-cam channel and didn't think they would stick since you can share pins 📌 on google maps
I’m a 911 dispatcher in an area that includes a state park that hosts visitors from all around the world, we use “what 3 words” when we get calls from the park, as well as the common hiking area from lost hikers to help our search and rescue team.
My brother told me about this years ago when I asked for the password to his wifi. He used the three words for where he kept the router. I didn't know it was still going and it's gotten bigger and better by the looks. Cool!
Delivery services need this.. there's way too many addresses that are confusing. My building address is Hopkins street, but its on Summit drive, so delivery drivers have a hard time finding it.
I used that pretty often in BC to keep location on MTB trails. It as been out for a while now. It was in 2018 when I was using it the most now I am just eating chip and don’t MTB anymore.. also good rescue tool if you bail somewhere and need to tell the emergency service to come pick you up
People in the comments seem to be forgetting the two applications for this, first that it allows it to be spoken rather than just through a link if thats more convenient for you, and second that its so much easier than reading out coodinates, especially in an emergency situation
Mercedes (or Daimler AG) owns What3Words. Mercedes vehicles have that feature for a couple of years. What3Words divides the world map into little 3x3m segments.
Game changer for emergency services, people can easily relay their location anywhere, say a boating accident on the lake without having to understand ALT/LONG
Waze sold to Google in 2013 for $1.3 billion. With a decent traffic API, the simple genius of this app could make it the next billion dollar app. I'm investing in this app. This is a game changer.
Co ordinates do the job but you need 5 decimal places for a similar level of accuracy, which means you have to remember 10 numbers and human brains are terrible at remembering long strings of random characters
If you guys want to check out this app, there’s a quick link to download in the description! How many of y’all would find this useful btw??
How are you reviewing anything? Always positive?
I think it would be pretty funny but wouldn’t all your friends have to have it?
No shade but if this is an AD you have to declare it
Can you Review the Mercedes CLA45s! It’s like a bmw m3 or Audi rs3
Can't find the link
But waze shows me where the cops are
Is it people reporting where the cops are?
@@user-vd3pu3kx5b yes.
@@user-vd3pu3kx5b yes. Very useful and a lot of people report them.
I’m loyal to Waze for this alone… and I report the cops too lol
Google Maps actually allows reporting of all the same things that waze does now too. But feel like it is not used as much as the Waze user base and because of that sometimes it isn't as effective as waze.
Yall gonna lose your minds when you find out how to drop a pin on Google maps.
This is a bit more convenient and easier than putting in a coordinate
@@mrcactus245 all you do is hold down your finger and hit share, copy and paste man we've been doing that since first grade.
@@asomnss both ways work
@@mrcactus245 but this one relies on people having to download a whole new app instead of what already comes with their phone. Plus, Google has been working on a version of simple coordinates for years for a single short alphanumeric code. I bet this startup has a patent on their unique and valuable idea, and it will either be licensed eventually by Google/apple or they will take a similar idea but slightly different to avoid patent infringement.
Yaa...also try to remember the code for the dropped pin....then u will understand y this app exists
“Sir, our sister battleship is being attacked!”
“Set course to cinnamon, table, rock!”
This definitely made my think of cinnamon, toast, crunch lol
cinnamon, table, rock
is not a valid three word location
try again
Unfortunately, that isn't going to happen in this era because there is no active duty battleship except for museums.
@@feelinghealingfrequences7179 r/whoosh
@@FornaxChemica you are the wooshed. You missed the joke
Who else thought that Mercedes was going to come to him through navigation?
😀😀me
ME! 🤣
Mee me mee 😊
Ever heard of coordinates. If you hold a spot on google maps it’ll drop a pin that you can share and it’ll bring you straight to that coordinate
Yes but this makes it much easier to understand and use for things such as voice commands. What 3 words is just a more simplistic version of coordinates
Coordinates are inconvenient unless you're planning on bombing a wedding.
@@insurgentleman 😭 we love the middle east
@@ashsmart6895 no we don’t bomb weddings, only towers.
Professionals have standards
it's for emergency services, if you're in the middle of nowhere and in a panic good luck trying to relay your exact coordinates lmfao
“Send my current location” has entered the chat
Middle.Of.Nowhere
Go!!
911 doesn’t get iMessage but they do understand the what3words protocol. Although, it’s definitely not perfect. There are a lot of homophones, a lot of words only differentiated by an “s”, etc.
"Explode crusty contents" 💀
Contests
Wtff
That's the wrong address off shore Tahiti
Eww
Technology is getting out of hand. My goodness
still pretty cool though
out of hand? you sound like the people that thought technology went to far when the first navigation systems were made
@@cowfat8547 I think coffee machine is crossing the line
Lol this existed in the 70s, all this does is take the GPS coords and convert the hex to a dictionary database. This is like 80s tech. Smart, but not high tech.
Everyone will continue to use google maps and this thing will be forgotten about.
You guys are gonna go crazy when you find out what longitude and latitude is
Co ordinates do the job but aren't very useful for a lay person because they're long and difficult to say and remember. If you were lost in Dartmoor, what would be easier to say: 50°31'54.4"N 3°55'25.3"W or worms.mild.galaxy? Or if you were meeting a friend somewhere. In countries which lack a good formal address system, this system could be gamechanging
@@grassytramtracks but why would u say the coordinates?? Just send them as a text through... whatsapp imessage.. heck even sms? And then u copy/paste that to go to the exact specific location??
This is still probably easier
Imagine the what three words for a cemetery being "stone, baked, people"
also called me on a tuesday
Or a school being "pumped, up, kicks"
Am I tripping? This just seems like dropping your location
that is what you do when you're telling someone where you are or where you want to meet lol
@@joerosser292 so....dropping a pin and pressing share, right?
This app is more accurate than Apple
@@TheNINDLE my messenger pigeon is also more accurate than Apple
@@TheNINDLE okay if that’s true then I can see how this would be helpful, but idk, still seems like we have this tech already
Mercedes’ UI looks like a 2010 blue ray player lol
It’s a bit of a classic design but don’t let that fool you. It’s probably one of the most modern and best UX/UI systems in the world
@@dotcinematicslooks like it was made with minimal effort
@@anhvu-yp9vs have you ever used it?
No it's not lmfao.
Tesla no.1 for sure and then maybe BMW @@dotcinematics
@@tempest8600 Have you ever used Mercedes’ MBUX before?
Can't you just send a link of Google maps for the exact location tho?
Yup
Yeah but then how could I tell someone to meet me at "hot eggplant volcano"?
Kinda. GPS coordinates from your finger point to being re-rendered is not always exact.
@@RadDadisRad bruh if you're across the street from your friend I doubt you need your app to be precise to the square foot
Just look up from your phone and there's your friend..
@@TravisTheSavage yes but it’s not exact. Google ties it to an address. Only way to get it more exact is to use the GPS coordinates.
Drug dealers are gonna be thriving
Fr
Drug dealers 😡 grrr 😡😡😡😒😒 friccin drug dillers 😡😡
How sway?
@@pamav7414 found the pothead lmao relax
Lol, imagine the cops listening in “potatoes.lubrication.shoelaces”
I’ve known about this for ages. Honestly surprised it hasn’t blown up. It would help if it was integrated into apple and Google maps
Google Maps has coordinates.
@@Bozza36 having a simpler version of that would be nice.
@@Bozza36 hence would be nice to have an extra option of being able to remember a place easily
Probably gonna be about 5-10 years before mass adoption like qr codes came out a while back but no one cared until it was in every camera app by default.
Here in the UK we use it loads and most companies and so on will let you know their what 3 words have used it for a long rime now
Am I the only one losing it at the car saying "EXPLODE CRUSTY CONTEST"
"Exploding crusty contest"
Oh I get it, it's like a qr code for the streets. Smart.
We use it as fire/rescue to find the specific locations of people off trail! Learned about it in a search and rescue class that I took haven't used it much but definitely a good tool!
I’ve heard of this concept in the context of rescue operations. Like a lost hiker can tell the rescuers just three words and there is less margin for error than given coordinates.
Something interesting about this:
I'm an architect from South Africa. In 2017 I was part of the team that won the African Architecture Awards beating out a lot bigger hitters from all over the world.
Part of the reason was that the museum we designed was not made to be static but was made to serve as a work horse for the historic empoverished community it was in.
One of the big problems with our informal settlements (shanty towns) is that direction and locality becomes a problem when you have km of tin shakes with no roads and small pathways.
We used what3words as a system to start geo tagging businesses and events and as a method for people to send out their pop up businesses and events to attract others.
I learned this is dispatch school! If you call 911, and tell them your three words (obviously tell them that you're using the app) and they'll be able to find you. This has been around for years! ❤️❤️ Thank you for using your platform for bringing awareness to this!
Woooo someone else who hasn’t said “JUsT dROp A PiN on GOoGLe”
@@aledmogs both are good and have their own pros and cons, I use both depending on situation. W3w is better in a way that you can memorize it and share it without a phone
@@user-co1gi7yd2r even then when I work on the ambulance almost evertime someone doesn't use w3w they send us the complete wrong place
@@aledmogs w3w also has an algorithm where two combinations that sound the same are far away from each but a misspelled coord will probably still look right until you're there. But yeah I have heard about it becoming pretty popular among emergency services which is cool, some island countries and mongolia actually adopted it as an official way address system
If only we had a numerical system used to express exact locations used throughout the world. That’s been used for decades….
Coordinates have been rediscovered
"even ur favorite fishing spot has a adress, which is great for off-road"
Me: how are u going to off-road in water
My brain: 😴
Do you even English?
@@AskDrRuiz do *you* even know English grammar
@@AskDrRuiz he’s joking
@@creatingtoomuch_yt20 do you are english ?? ?mm ??
@@maruftim can't u understand a joke kid?
Its been Out for a Long Time but maybe slowly catches up because the Pictures and Offroad Parts are dope ,didnt know that
Latitude and longitude left the chat
Imagine your Mercedes hears the wrong word and now you are on your way to the Pacific Ocean 💀
Thanks. There’s always problem when pinning location because I’m living off the grid.
Pretty sure you need internet for this to work as well though.
They have longitude and latitude, you can send anyone your coordinates at any time. You don’t need to send them three words/a picture, or a combination of those two.
To give your longitude and latitude to a similar level of accuracy as what3words, you'd need 5 decimal places which doesn't quite roll off the tongue and is hard to remember
Your truly amazing on your reviews & showing us new products that we didn’t no existed until we tuned in to watch you show us thanks 🙏 & keep information coming & the funny content
At school we had to do a treasure hunt one time using this app and the three word location
“Great for off-roading”
**Clicks on ocean**
You don’t say 😂😂
too edgy name n pfp
Technically the ocean IS off the road...🤔
You know we have longitude and latitude right? Invented hundreds of years ago..
🤦🏻♂️
Yea sure, tell a friend your exact coordinates to meet up, gotta be precise to the decimal too.
@@smd7147 that all the 3 words is doing is using a different dictionary to swap coordinates to 3 words
@@HansBelphegor
Of course it is just a translation, but why is that an issue for you?
@@smd7147you can just share a location via link
In not telling my friends….”meet me at glue,wind,falafel” they are going to think I’ve lost it.
This app is really useful especially if your at a party like a outside rave/venue where there’s thousands of people.
First of all if you're at a rave venue you're burnt out bunch of older perverts praying on young kids burnt out on dope
While i was at the police station waitng to bailout a friend for a night of drunk driving. I called my other friend and told him the "what three words" so we can meet up. I said to my friend "Airplane Explode Pieces".
And that's how i ended up in jail with my friend i just bailed out.....
Everyone criticising the app, it was originally designed for ambulance services to locate people who are in the wilderness not near roads, so they could easily call-out their location.
This is so cool! Definitely has massive usage potential.
I use that all the time lol
That’s dope ngl
Great idea as simple as genious to simplify the coordinate system 💪🏻👍🏻
The interesting thing about this app is that there’s already, at least according to legend a mapping system of the world based on assigning three word names to small segments of the world. I learned this from watching NCIS Los Angeles.
Wait till they hear about this thing called "latitude and longitude".. it's gonna blow their mind! :/
Yep..
Saying three words is much quicker and easier than having to dictate 20-digit long coordinates which can be easily misheard over the phone. Very useful for conveying to emergency services exactly where you are.
Pretty cool tbh
I read that the initial purpose (or at least one of them) of this system was to facilitate an address for people who live in places where there are no explicit street names or house numbers, which is more common than you'd think (favelas for example). And yes, coordinates work as well, but this would be easier to remember and to communicate.
We use this at work to find our gas pressure stations that can be located in random fields or hidden from the road. Very useful app. Seen comments regarding google maps, this app lets you pick from several apps to navigate to it including google.
Explode crusty contents 😂😂😂
WhAt??
I thought that background looked familiar, I live down the street!
Oh so thats what geoguesser professionals do
It's been one of my favorite apps for the past 4 years
#AD Viewers deserve to know when you’re getting paid to shill.
Even S class's screen is lagging 🤮
I use that all the time. Way before this video came out. And our local 911 center also is implementing it to help locate people who are in rural/ unfamiliar areas around here
Very handy app, in the UK the operators on the emergency line use it and will ask the person on the line for their what 3 words location. They ran ads urging people to download it
Normal people do not need that because we dont use iTrash, we just go to Google maps and get where ever we want to. And I tell this as a guy who does 50 000km a year.
That's amazing that this app is still around. I heard about them years ago on the Riding With Peterson TH-cam channel and didn't think they would stick since you can share pins 📌 on google maps
Mitsubishi has been using this in their GPS systems for the 2022 and newer Outlander it's pretty cool
I’m downloading it now, thanks for the tip
i swear a friend of mine tried to do this back in 2014 😳 he had a name for it and everything so when you go to concerts you can always find friends
Congratulations on the baby and for your family! Love your videos
The Australian emergency service system uses this program it’s actually incredible
Basically living out here in Ventura County ! That’s right !
This relies on your GPS being accurate to within 10 feet, which most aren’t
This system can be used using multiple languages. The designators will differ depending on the language used. Outstanding!
Dude : explode.crusty..
Car: Exploding in 3...2....
I’m a 911 dispatcher in an area that includes a state park that hosts visitors from all around the world, we use “what 3 words” when we get calls from the park, as well as the common hiking area from lost hikers to help our search and rescue team.
My brother told me about this years ago when I asked for the password to his wifi. He used the three words for where he kept the router. I didn't know it was still going and it's gotten bigger and better by the looks. Cool!
Finally an app for us simple humans. We remember words better than numbers.
Delivery services need this.. there's way too many addresses that are confusing. My building address is Hopkins street, but its on Summit drive, so delivery drivers have a hard time finding it.
It is basically lateral and longitude coordinates but less precise and unusable on a paper map because it needs a search bar to be practical.
I remember in the uk 2021 this was heavily advertised but nobody uses it except hikers and stuff
GPS coordinates do that too.
If you want the exact location to anywhere send the coordinates longitude latitude (for example 36.93112° N, 122.03155° W)
This is very cool! Great for scouting and campsite locating.
I saw its ad a few years ago never thought that would make it so far❤
I used that pretty often in BC to keep location on MTB trails. It as been out for a while now. It was in 2018 when I was using it the most now I am just eating chip and don’t MTB anymore.. also good rescue tool if you bail somewhere and need to tell the emergency service to come pick you up
People in the comments seem to be forgetting the two applications for this, first that it allows it to be spoken rather than just through a link if thats more convenient for you, and second that its so much easier than reading out coodinates, especially in an emergency situation
Kid: Wet night gamble.
Grandpas: you kids are something else …
Mercedes (or Daimler AG) owns What3Words. Mercedes vehicles have that feature for a couple of years. What3Words divides the world map into little 3x3m segments.
Meanwhile, all skydivers are like “oh the world is finally catching up”😂
Excluding the photo option. This exact this was developed in India a few years ago but required faster Internet which was not available at that time.
Game changer for emergency services, people can easily relay their location anywhere, say a boating accident on the lake without having to understand ALT/LONG
Thank you so much for the app hook up 🤛🏽. This one is going to be very helpful
As a scout in Australia most of us already use this
The cool thing is that you can easily speak a location, and the other person can remember it more easily than number coordinates.
Been using it for a few years now. It's the best way to navigate.
Your benz is awesome m8
There’s this amazing thing called latitude and longitude- I hear it’s going to be the next big thing in navigation
Waze sold to Google in 2013 for $1.3 billion. With a decent traffic API, the simple genius of this app could make it the next billion dollar app. I'm investing in this app. This is a game changer.
I love your energy!
The fire department uses this app to find and rescue people. They recently found someone in the Los Angeles mountains
In Australia we have an app called emergency plus which has what3words built in so you can tell emergency services where you are.
Good
This is actually really really dope! Thanks for sharing
This is what reinventing the wheel looks like when you forget coordinates exist.
Co ordinates do the job but you need 5 decimal places for a similar level of accuracy, which means you have to remember 10 numbers and human brains are terrible at remembering long strings of random characters
He so good at this i aint even realize it was an ad😭
Ah, I remember this concept being talked about on a Ted talk years ago. I think it was a Ted talk. I always wondered what came of that.
Kid: Wet night gamble.
Kid: okay
Grandpas: WTF???
Y’all ever hear of longitude and latitude? The amazing thing is that the compass app that’s pre installed on every iPhone shows this
why not just send a link from google maps to someone💀