But how would you find donkey.sausage.hymen on a map? It seems to be completely random with no structure, no rules. And you can't relate one location to another.
Yes, for the last 25 years.Chicago suburbs south sider?
I looked that spot up of Google Earth. Did you ever wonder about those humongous, giant tracks on the ocean floor? I was going to post a smart ass explanation for them but I have already been outclassed. See the comment at 26 8.145, -140 15.929 in Google Earth. Just paste the coordinates into the search box.One use could be that it's easier to communicate coordinates to other humans.
Easier to say to a human donkey.sausage.hymen rather than to say 15°46′51" N, 144°12′16" W. And easier to remember.
Well what are you going to do with the geo. coords. if you have them? Probably plug them into a GPS... There's no reason you can't just type this string in and have the GPS unit lookup the corresponding coordinates.
What's next to that? Are there any correlations or completely random?Just left Cozumel
Middle of Caribbean
I guess those two sets of three words give a general sense of where I am.
Lol @ humans memorizing this, most can't even point out the Iraq on a map, and that's just one word.Well they are points in a coordinate system, and just on sight they give you a rough idea of where the point lies on the globe.
I'll grant the human readability and memorization point someone else made. Maybe the military already has something like this.
I thought this was pretty cool. Rather than long strings of numbers (coordinates) to identify a location, what3words.com can identify ANY 3 meter-by-3 meter location on the planet, using a string of 3 words, and has mapped the earth into 57 trillion areas.
In densely populated areas, the words tend to be smaller, and vice-versa.
Using words makes it less likely to get a location wrong. A mis-typed number could refer to a wrong location, but a misspelled word will simply go unrecognized. And even if an errant plural is used where the word should be singular, it will be pretty far from the desired location indicating a mistake.
zeal.pound.pint = Statue of Liberty (well, part of it) but zeal.pound.pints = in England
You can zoom way in on the map on their site and see the grid pattern and it will display the 3 words assigned to where the pointer is.