Yes. Many think it's as an open standard: they have a good PR team. It's not. It is a closed product from a for-profit company. IMO promoting for use by emergency services is short-sighted. AFAICS there is no enforceable guarantee it will be forever free even to them.
But they are gaining users like Uber. Did I mention their good PR team?
Although, even under ideal conditions, smartphone GPS can typically only place you somewhere inside a circle of 4.9m radius. That could be up to nine W3W squares. The accuracy drops off even further near trees or buildings.
Far more memorable
Just the leaves and small stuff. Not worth carting home.
and also on the number of GPS satellites directly overhead.....
OK John. See above!
Ah yes of course and type on a virtual keyboard or have a bluetooth one at your side at all times. Brian
No they just shout louder, a bit like us English abroad. Brian
Whether up you use a smart phone or a laptop I remember looking at the idea as a novelty, but really considering the poor quality of many phone lines trying to get anything over the phone that is legible is a pain these days as somewhere or other it ends up as a voip based gritty distorted mess. Brian
Fredxx was thinking very hard :
You are correct. If if wait a while, the square moves to a more accurate position. There is a name for averaging several GPS locations, to produce a more accurate result?
Normal operation? In practice IIRC the accuracy improves as you average the results from several different satellites as they wander overhead
Mine seems accurate to better than 5m after a while
Mine has 15.
Bill
Then predictive spelling comes in.
But for the courier role, it doesn't matter if he has GPS at all, as long as it can show the W3W addr superimposed on a map, he can tell which door to knock on, unless Amazon are proposing JDAM guided delivery?
Fourkingmaps.co.uk is much better
And ideal for telling the police or other emergency service where to go. :-)
#Paul
That would be what four words and give the number on the lift to press.
If you're on the 'poor door' side of the building you might not get a lift.
Owain
And the rich side is full of piss/vomit and out of order.
I have worked in such places.
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