{"id":6713,"date":"2016-07-13T04:59:53","date_gmt":"2016-07-13T04:59:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/?p=6713"},"modified":"2016-07-13T04:59:53","modified_gmt":"2016-07-13T04:59:53","slug":"couches-paths-vague","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/2016\/07\/13\/couches-paths-vague\/","title":{"rendered":"couches.paths.vague"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is the\u00a0address of one of the entrances to Paddington station in London using <a href=\"https:\/\/what3words.com\/about\"><em>What3Words<\/em><\/a>, a geolocation system that is accurate to within 9 square metres, anywhere on earth. \u00a0Given the precision that's available through W3W, the station entrance has other addresses, such as: sticky.futures.pokers &amp; rent.precautions.supply . \u00a0There is thus considerable redundancy\u00a0in the system, given the precision, which is useful in identifying parts of a building \u2013 though only at ground level.<\/p>\n<p>All this is the brainchild of Chris Sheldrick, the CEO of W3W, which is\u00a0based in London. \u00a0All told, there are about 57 trillion\u00a0such 3x3 squares on earth, but only 40,000 words are needed to describe them.<\/p>\n<p>Two of the three words that locate the entrance to where I live are punks &amp; political \u2013 which seems apt in these post-referendum times, and I may start to use the W3W address as it is so much more precise than a postcode which has to cover a whole street. \u00a0The system is already is use across the world and it is particularly useful in shanty towns and rural communities where there are no conventional addresses. \u00a0A British courier firm says using the system has already reduced missed deliveries by 83%. \u00a0As the <a href=\"https:\/\/what3words.com\/about\">Economist<\/a> noted: watch this space.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is the\u00a0address of one of the entrances to Paddington station in London using What3Words, a geolocation system that is accurate to within 9 square metres, anywhere on earth. \u00a0Given the precision that's available through W3W, the station entrance has...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":237,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6713","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-comment","category-new-publications"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6713","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/237"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6713"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6713\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6713"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6713"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6713"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}