Three Word Address
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In the TED video, he provides examples of why he wanted this system... but in it proves that the three word system can't work. His truck driver went north of Rome instead of South. But if people get words wrong, the three word system is worse, rather than better, than other options.
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TED talk also said that they wanted something simpler than GPS, but they made something more complex.
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Yeah this is horrible for addresses, but could be great for GPS.
I live in a 2nd floor condo, so the person under me has the same exact address. This is useless for mail, but great for someone to physically drive to me by car. After that point, the person would have no idea which one I live in. Also, I live where 4 "squares" meet, so I can say my home has 4 addresses, and they are all completely different.
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@dustinb3403 said in Three Word Address:
@coliver said in Three Word Address:
@dustinb3403 said in Three Word Address:
@scottalanmiller said in Three Word Address:
Have you watched the video? If so, and you feel there is value to the system, explain what it is.
I already have watched the video, the value is for places like gutty cities in Brazil etc.
Not for highly developed parts of the world.
What value does it have then? Why not just use GPS? I'm not "hating" on it... just seems like a solution looking for a problem that was already solved by a better more reliable way.
The problem is people have an incredibly hard time remembering numbers. Phones and GPS is great and all, if you have a device that is able to pull / share that information with the person you're in need or / talking too.
No, that's not a problem. People don't need to remember anything. That's the whole point, to use this system you need to be digital and the need for remembering addresses doesn't exist.
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Governments can literally go around and paint the 3 word address of every home in the gutter cities of the world on the side of the building.
If there is an emergency all that needs to happen is you call for help and say Im at little.scotch.horse and then the help knows how to get directly to you.
Which it is way easier to paint 3 words on the side of every house then it is to paint the exact coordinates of every house with the minutes to be as pinpoint.
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@dustinb3403 said in Three Word Address:
@coliver said in Three Word Address:
@dustinb3403 said in Three Word Address:
@scottalanmiller said in Three Word Address:
Have you watched the video? If so, and you feel there is value to the system, explain what it is.
I already have watched the video, the value is for places like gutty cities in Brazil etc.
Not for highly developed parts of the world.
What value does it have then? Why not just use GPS? I'm not "hating" on it... just seems like a solution looking for a problem that was already solved by a better more reliable way.
The problem is people have an incredibly hard time remembering numbers. Phones and GPS is great and all, if you have a device that is able to pull / share that information with the person you're in need or / talking too.
What part of the three word system alleviates that? They would still need a device to find their three word location and the person on the other end would still need a device to decipher the three word location.
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@scottalanmiller said in Three Word Address:
@dustinb3403 said in Three Word Address:
@coliver said in Three Word Address:
@dustinb3403 said in Three Word Address:
@scottalanmiller said in Three Word Address:
Have you watched the video? If so, and you feel there is value to the system, explain what it is.
I already have watched the video, the value is for places like gutty cities in Brazil etc.
Not for highly developed parts of the world.
What value does it have then? Why not just use GPS? I'm not "hating" on it... just seems like a solution looking for a problem that was already solved by a better more reliable way.
The problem is people have an incredibly hard time remembering numbers. Phones and GPS is great and all, if you have a device that is able to pull / share that information with the person you're in need or / talking too.
No, that's not a problem. People don't need to remember anything. That's the whole point, to use this system you need to be digital and the need for remembering addresses doesn't exist.
No the point is to not rely on digital once every 3 meters is marked.
You're clearly missing it the forest for the trees.
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@dustinb3403 said in Three Word Address:
Phones and GPS is great and all, if you have a device that is able to pull / share that information with the person you're in need or / talking too.
Which you must in order for any reasonable scenario of using the three word system to exist. You never answered my key question... HOW does someone need this system in a scenario where they can't use GPS?
Every example case for three words didn't need three words to do what is given in the example.
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I went through the video again, it's absolute crap. He gave no value to the system and not one use case that was real. Not one. It's was nothing but a commercial for his silly database company.
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@coliver said in Three Word Address:
@dustinb3403 said in Three Word Address:
@scottalanmiller said in Three Word Address:
Have you watched the video? If so, and you feel there is value to the system, explain what it is.
I already have watched the video, the value is for places like gutty cities in Brazil etc.
Not for highly developed parts of the world.
What value does it have then? Why not just use GPS? I'm not "hating" on it... just seems like a solution looking for a problem that was already solved by a better more reliable way.
I suppose I get it - if your house in those gutty cities don't have an address, and the resident doesn't have a cell phone, I suppose they could ask someone who does, to stand there and give them the GPS coordinates, and then paint those numbers on the house.
The problem I see is when the resident is away from the house, how will they remember those coordinates? I remember my street address because it's short and uses words I know. When someone gives me their address I must write it down, otherwise I will mess it up.
back to my earlier question - does everyone in those gutty cities have a phone with GPS and memory in the phone so they can recall their home address when needed? if yes, then abstracting those difficult to recall coordinates becomes a non issue.
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@coliver said in Three Word Address:
@dustinb3403 said in Three Word Address:
@coliver said in Three Word Address:
@dustinb3403 said in Three Word Address:
@scottalanmiller said in Three Word Address:
Have you watched the video? If so, and you feel there is value to the system, explain what it is.
I already have watched the video, the value is for places like gutty cities in Brazil etc.
Not for highly developed parts of the world.
What value does it have then? Why not just use GPS? I'm not "hating" on it... just seems like a solution looking for a problem that was already solved by a better more reliable way.
The problem is people have an incredibly hard time remembering numbers. Phones and GPS is great and all, if you have a device that is able to pull / share that information with the person you're in need or / talking too.
What part of the three word system alleviates that? They would still need a device to find their three word location and the person on the other end would still need a device to decipher the three word location.
No, the governments that have already picked up this system are going around and literally painting the 3 word address on every 3 meters so people know where they are exactly that moment.
All the people have to have is a dumb phone and be able to call for help should something happen.
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@dustinb3403 said in Three Word Address:
@scottalanmiller said in Three Word Address:
@dustinb3403 said in Three Word Address:
@coliver said in Three Word Address:
@dustinb3403 said in Three Word Address:
@scottalanmiller said in Three Word Address:
Have you watched the video? If so, and you feel there is value to the system, explain what it is.
I already have watched the video, the value is for places like gutty cities in Brazil etc.
Not for highly developed parts of the world.
What value does it have then? Why not just use GPS? I'm not "hating" on it... just seems like a solution looking for a problem that was already solved by a better more reliable way.
The problem is people have an incredibly hard time remembering numbers. Phones and GPS is great and all, if you have a device that is able to pull / share that information with the person you're in need or / talking too.
No, that's not a problem. People don't need to remember anything. That's the whole point, to use this system you need to be digital and the need for remembering addresses doesn't exist.
No the point is to not rely on digital once every 3 meters is marked.
You're clearly missing it the forest for the trees.
Oh really. So if that's so, tell me this use case. You seem to have one you are keeping secret. Fill me in.
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@dashrender said in Three Word Address:
The problem I see is when the resident is away from the house, how will they remember those coordinates?
What's the real world use case for needing to share your home coordinates when you are not at home and don't have any digital devices? I never said it could never happen, what I said was it was so niche as to be useless. Partially because it depends on everyone involved having set up the three word system ahead of time and one of the parties being digital and another not, but having done digital work to get to that point.
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@dustinb3403 said in Three Word Address:
All the people have to have is a dumb phone and be able to call for help should something happen.
But if you have a cell phone, they know where you are already. So what did that solve?
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@dustinb3403 said in Three Word Address:
@coliver said in Three Word Address:
@dustinb3403 said in Three Word Address:
@coliver said in Three Word Address:
@dustinb3403 said in Three Word Address:
@scottalanmiller said in Three Word Address:
Have you watched the video? If so, and you feel there is value to the system, explain what it is.
I already have watched the video, the value is for places like gutty cities in Brazil etc.
Not for highly developed parts of the world.
What value does it have then? Why not just use GPS? I'm not "hating" on it... just seems like a solution looking for a problem that was already solved by a better more reliable way.
The problem is people have an incredibly hard time remembering numbers. Phones and GPS is great and all, if you have a device that is able to pull / share that information with the person you're in need or / talking too.
What part of the three word system alleviates that? They would still need a device to find their three word location and the person on the other end would still need a device to decipher the three word location.
No, the governments that have already picked up this system are going around and literally painting the 3 word address on every 3 meters so people know where they are exactly that moment.
All the people have to have is a dumb phone and be able to call for help should something happen.
I guess... I just am not seeing how this would be better then GPS coordinates on every 3 meter location.
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@scottalanmiller said in Three Word Address:
@dustinb3403 said in Three Word Address:
@scottalanmiller said in Three Word Address:
@dustinb3403 said in Three Word Address:
@coliver said in Three Word Address:
@dustinb3403 said in Three Word Address:
@scottalanmiller said in Three Word Address:
Have you watched the video? If so, and you feel there is value to the system, explain what it is.
I already have watched the video, the value is for places like gutty cities in Brazil etc.
Not for highly developed parts of the world.
What value does it have then? Why not just use GPS? I'm not "hating" on it... just seems like a solution looking for a problem that was already solved by a better more reliable way.
The problem is people have an incredibly hard time remembering numbers. Phones and GPS is great and all, if you have a device that is able to pull / share that information with the person you're in need or / talking too.
No, that's not a problem. People don't need to remember anything. That's the whole point, to use this system you need to be digital and the need for remembering addresses doesn't exist.
No the point is to not rely on digital once every 3 meters is marked.
You're clearly missing it the forest for the trees.
Oh really. So if that's so, tell me this use case. You seem to have one you are keeping secret. Fill me in.
Use case:
I live in a brazil gutter city, there are no formal addresses in place by the government and the nearest street is a quarter mile away from me.
I have a dumb phone and can call for help if fall and get hurt, since there is no official address system, I'm going to suffer.
Instead all I have to do is know the 3 word address nearest me (literally read the wall) in the local language and tell the help where I am.
That person / entity needs to be digital to find the person who needs the help.
Only the person who needs help has to have is the ability to read (their language) and a dumb phone.
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@dustinb3403 said in Three Word Address:
No, the governments that have already picked up this system are going around and literally painting the 3 word address on every 3 meters so people know where they are exactly that moment.
Where are they doing this? Think about how many signs that would be. The landscape would be nothing but signs.
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@dustinb3403 said in Three Word Address:
@scottalanmiller said in Three Word Address:
@dustinb3403 said in Three Word Address:
@scottalanmiller said in Three Word Address:
@dustinb3403 said in Three Word Address:
@coliver said in Three Word Address:
@dustinb3403 said in Three Word Address:
@scottalanmiller said in Three Word Address:
Have you watched the video? If so, and you feel there is value to the system, explain what it is.
I already have watched the video, the value is for places like gutty cities in Brazil etc.
Not for highly developed parts of the world.
What value does it have then? Why not just use GPS? I'm not "hating" on it... just seems like a solution looking for a problem that was already solved by a better more reliable way.
The problem is people have an incredibly hard time remembering numbers. Phones and GPS is great and all, if you have a device that is able to pull / share that information with the person you're in need or / talking too.
No, that's not a problem. People don't need to remember anything. That's the whole point, to use this system you need to be digital and the need for remembering addresses doesn't exist.
No the point is to not rely on digital once every 3 meters is marked.
You're clearly missing it the forest for the trees.
Oh really. So if that's so, tell me this use case. You seem to have one you are keeping secret. Fill me in.
Use case:
I live in a brazil gutter city, there are no formal addresses in place by the government and the nearest street is a quarter mile away from me.
I have a dumb phone and can call for help if fall and get hurt, since there is no official address system, I'm going to suffer.
You have a phone, ergo the three word system isn't needed. You are missing the point here. Give me an example where you don't already know where the caller is.
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@scottalanmiller said in Three Word Address:
@dashrender said in Three Word Address:
The problem I see is when the resident is away from the house, how will they remember those coordinates?
What's the real world use case for needing to share your home coordinates when you are not at home and don't have any digital devices? I never said it could never happen, what I said was it was so niche as to be useless. Partially because it depends on everyone involved having set up the three word system ahead of time and one of the parties being digital and another not, but having done digital work to get to that point.
a person who does not own a phone who goes shopping and something will be delivered. But maybe that's not a real thing in those places.
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@scottalanmiller said in Three Word Address:
@dustinb3403 said in Three Word Address:
All the people have to have is a dumb phone and be able to call for help should something happen.
But if you have a cell phone, they know where you are already. So what did that solve?
They know within a general proximity (something like 300 meters) that's a large area to search for someone when you're in a gutter city.
