Location, Location, Location

This is an interesting concept for mapping.

It divides the globe into I-don’t-know-how-many 3 meter by 3 meter squares, and assigns each square a three-word set. What I find especially interesting is that it takes my mailing address, which looks like this:

00 Xxxxxxxxxx Xxxxxxx
Xxxx Xxxxxx, XX 00000

And encodes my location as three common English words, which I can easily make a mnemonic phrase out of:

XXXX XXXXXX XXXXXX

And it’s not just my mailing address, representing the entire property — it’s the location of my actual mailbox.

How Do I Get To Carnegie Hall?

The answer to the timeless question. The street address is 881 7th Ave, New York, NY 10019. The three words are Cloak / Punchy / Tour. See it at https://what3words.com/cloak.punchy.tour

Just where the building is — it has a lot of doors.

But you can zero in on where the front door is:

https://what3words.com/armed.hurry.racing

And you can do more. For example, where exactly is the stage door? It’s over on 56th Street.

Where you go to meet your friends and colleagues after a concert.

https://what3words.com/cape.puns.pack

I don’t expect this to replace zip+4 any time soon, but it certainly could be useful for a lot of things. Such as a place with no address, like this fountain in Orange Reservoir, South Mountain Reservation. At night, it and the other fountains in the reservoir are lit up, and look really pretty. You can direct your out-of-town visitors to the exact spot with https://what3words.com/cook.sang.rugs.

Or this: https://w3w.co/float.agree.admire, which is where I parked last week.