Could be confusing for people living in high rise blocks who would all be in the same grid square.

What is this about please?

Apparently he tried to get folk interested in grid ref location but it wasnt popular. There are enough words or letters to cover the globe, the letters just represent the map reference.

Good idea and seems useful.

Plasma

Brevity and reliability.

Think of each word as a number and each 3 metre square of the Earth's surface is represented by a three digit number in base 40000. To achieve the same resolution using latitude and longitude requires many more digits. It is easier, and less error prone to say "nuns, obey, ranked" than "51 degrees, 30 minutes, 7.14 seconds North, 0 degrees. 8 minutes, 25.98 seconds West".

(Evidently less error prone to type too, reading my post before pressing "Add Posting" I realised I had missed a digit.)

Brian

Edit:  Don't worry Neil, I don't have a secret workshop at this location

Edited By Brian G on 15/08/2019 19:37:45

Thank you 34046 and Michael. Interesting idea might help find parcels delivered to somewhere underneath my garden hedge!

Do they use words in each specific country's dictionary as for those that cant read and write English spooky.solemn.huggers would simply be a string of letters and if Russian or Chinese for example not even ones in your alphabet?

The answer to your query is HERE ,in part anyway. I can foresee problems using pictographic alphabets for the typed version, in the short term anyway. Did you have any reason for picking Delphi as an example?

It's been around for several years, certainly I used it when we bought the new house in Buxton a little over 3 years ago.

It's actually been adopted nationally by Mongolia, particularly for their mail service.

Bill

Edited By peak4 on 15/08/2019 21:00:10

I've been using this for a while, simple to use and brilliant for my hobby of Field Target shooting as not many fields in the middle of nowhere have a post code.

Have you tried entering the password of a friends wifi into your phone with them peering at the microscopic writing on the bottom of the device mixing up 1 and l and you taping the tiny keyboard? Netgear had the bright idea of making them out of two words, normally a noun and adjective. eg spikey turnip.

Also by using genuine words you can write it down in a semi cryptic fashion with more security. eg ." I was able to pick up the spikey hedgehog by attaching it to a turnip."

I heard that someone was rescued who was trapped in their car after going off the road. Spoke to the rescue services, they talked her through installing the app, she got her location, they found her. Several courier services use it, my brother has his location as a discreet signboard on his garage.

Recently I had first hand experience of the app working. Out mountain biking we came across a group of walkers, one of them in very obvious distress. Fortunately they had the app on a phone and luckily the local emergency services had just started using it. The emergency services were able to get to the location quickly. These walkers were not local so, would by their own admission would struggle to give an accurate location. Us MTBers being local may also have struggled using local rather than the "official" names for the area and features that the services need.

Needless to say I've installed the app!

John

There has been a lot of publicity recently, several UK fire services have announced support as well as articles on the BBC website