Three Word Address
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I was hanging out in a horrible mountain side shanty town (currogated three side deals, no doors, no water, no power) that was mostly families begging for field work once in a while and these kids were playing in some abandoned old religious building up the hill and came out and asked me to take their picture. I wouldn't take the camera out in the shanties themselves, no polite and not safe, but as these kids asked it was fine.
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And in shanty towns like this, someone has a phone and they would have to in order to call for emergency services. If they had no phones, then the only hope would be finding a tuc tuc in the dark to take someone down the mountain. Bottom line... if they can call out they don't need the 3 words. And if they can't call out, the 3 words wouldn't have been useful.
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This just seems ridiculous to me. If you tell me you live at blue.up.dog, I have no way to figure out how to get there. At least with street addresses you can tell where other streets intersect and are able to find things if you need to. With random words every 9 feet it’s impossible to know anything without looking at that map.
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@stacksofplates said in Three Word Address:
This just seems ridiculous to me. If you tell me you live at blue.up.dog, I have no way to figure out how to get there. At least with street addresses you can tell where other streets intersect and are able to find things if you need to. With random words every 9 feet it’s impossible to know anything without looking at that map.
Right, so you are still totally dependent on all of the old technology, and the new too. It gives no fallback should any piece fail. Both addresses and GPS have "the system is offline" analogues.
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The real issue is that this isn't someone trying to solve a real world problem. Just watch the video, all of his issues that he claims he is trying to solve are problems that have not existed for years in the real world. He gives very first world 1990s examples of things to solve. Then ignores all modern technology and realities of the world and proposes a private company step in and create some ridiculous system that makes no sense and is desperately trying to sell it so that he can pay for his next house.
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@stacksofplates said in Three Word Address:
This just seems ridiculous to me. If you tell me you live at blue.up.dog, I have no way to figure out how to get there. At least with street addresses you can tell where other streets intersect and are able to find things if you need to. With random words every 9 feet it’s impossible to know anything without looking at that map.
You're all missing the point.
This isn't for parts of the world with current addressing systems like the US or UK or other well established systems.
This is for the shanty towns and places of the world where there is no addressing system at all. For governments that can't get their [moderated] together.
It's easy to adopt, and easy to deploy. A paint crew would just have to go out and paint on the side of a shack the exact location according to this system.
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@dustinb3403 said in Three Word Address:
It's easy to adopt, and easy to deploy. A paint crew would just have to go out and paint on the side of a shack the exact location according to this system.
That's not easy. And shacks move, all the time. They aren't solid structures.
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@scottalanmiller said in Three Word Address:
@dustinb3403 said in Three Word Address:
It's easy to adopt, and easy to deploy. A paint crew would just have to go out and paint on the side of a shack the exact location according to this system.
That's not easy. And shacks move, all the time. They aren't solid structures.
Fine... paint on the ground. IDK how exactly to explain in to you in a way that the specific ground address for those 3 meters isn't moving.
Who cares what is on that ground. You're in ginger.dead.garlic at the moment. Oh now you're in fried.bull.balls. Oh now you're testing.my.patience
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@dustinb3403 said in Three Word Address:
@scottalanmiller said in Three Word Address:
@dustinb3403 said in Three Word Address:
It's easy to adopt, and easy to deploy. A paint crew would just have to go out and paint on the side of a shack the exact location according to this system.
That's not easy. And shacks move, all the time. They aren't solid structures.
Fine... paint on the ground.
On dirt? You are the one pointing out that there is nothing there. This makes no sense. If you can't have addresses, how are you going to have some reliable signage system covering all this space? For that effort, they could make roads!
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@dustinb3403 said in Three Word Address:
Who cares what is on that ground. You're in ginger.dead.garlic at the moment. Oh now you're in fried.bull.balls. Oh now you're testing.my.patience
No one is testing your patience. Why are you so determined to have this be a sensible system when you know of no use case for it? What has made you passionate about something so useless to you and anyone you can think of?
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There is another problem... how do you GET your three words? I think that you have to buy them. There is no obvious lookup system.
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@scottalanmiller said in Three Word Address:
@dustinb3403 said in Three Word Address:
Who cares what is on that ground. You're in ginger.dead.garlic at the moment. Oh now you're in fried.bull.balls. Oh now you're testing.my.patience
No one is testing your patience. Why are you so determined to have this be a sensible system when you know of no use case for it? What has made you passionate about something so useless to you and anyone you can think of?
That was a quip about a possible location in the world based on the 3 word address system.
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Here is the three words for MangoCon...
mercy.sentences.decks
Not exactly easy to use. And how can someone look that up?
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I did a Google lookup, doesn't work. GPS and addresses take you right to info that you need. Three words do not.
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If you use the three word system and put it into their own maps, it suggests other locations with similar names. Very confusing and it shows how insanely easy it is to get it wrong but not having the words absolutely exact. Make a singular plural or ad an "ing" to a word and you are somewhere totally different.
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Here is an actual shanty town... where those kids were.
liner.approvals.minerals
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It's hard to tell from the sat view, but under the trees on the south side of the road hundreds of people live. You can't see their structures from the view. Likely they move around based on the harvest season, too.
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@dustinb3403 said in Three Word Address:
@scottalanmiller said in Three Word Address:
@dustinb3403 said in Three Word Address:
@scottalanmiller really you work in many gutter cities around the world?
C'mon, you know that I do.
I'm not talking Rochester.
I'm talking places similar to this (not sure what this exact location is though)
Rio De Janeiro IIRC. I've seen that picture or one like it in many a new s article. There is actually some structure to that from what I've read but nothing like a Boston, Rochester, or NYC.
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Sounds terrible, there no relation to things. Move 3 meters and youre listed as something unrelated to where you just were.
blue.crap.done
move 3 meters
flan.flap.dumbJust use GPS, Lat and Long, problem solved forever, everywhere. Also more accurate.
