What3Words has already partnered with courier corporations like BlueDart, DTDC together with automobile manufacturers like Tata Motors and Mahindra.
The What3words platform has marked the whole world map into 3m x 3m squares and has tagged all attainable GPS coordinates of Earth with three distinctive phrases. For instance, in the event you kind “straddled.sprayer.sponsors” on the search field of What3Words web site or app, it can immediately take you to the exact entrance of the Taj Mahal.
Google Maps is the first navigation app for almost all in India. However, with India’s increasing highway community and growing inhabitants density in city areas, Google Maps can typically be very unreliable. So, what to do when Google Maps fails you? Well, there’s an answer that’s on the market hiding in our plain sight for fairly a while and it’s known as “What3Words”.
Yes, the title ‘What3Words’ could sound a bit uncommon for a navigation platform but it surely’s true to what it really does. You can discover the precise location and navigate to the placement by looking out with “three words”. How? The What3words platform has marked the whole world map into 3m x 3m squares and has tagged all attainable GPS coordinates of Earth with three distinctive phrases. For instance, in the event you kind “straddled.sprayer.sponsors” on the search field of What3Words web site or app, it can immediately take you to the exact entrance of the Taj Mahal. And if you need your pals to fulfill on the entrance of the Taj Mahal, all it’s essential to do is share these 3 phrases– “straddled.sprayer.sponsors”- with them.
Now, the subsequent huge query is, how will you bear in mind these 3 phrases for each location? Well, technically you don’t want to try this. At probably the most, it’s essential to bear in mind the three phrases to your dwelling or workplace so that you could share together with your Uber driver, mates and others.
While Google Maps appears like the last word navigation app, in actuality it simply offers a hen’s eye view. Now, going again to the identical Taj Mahal instance, the doorway of the Taj Mahal has the GPS coordinates: 27.174528, 78.047806. To make your pals meet at this actual spot, you’ll have to share this GPS coordinate. It goes with out saying that utilizing GPS coordinates on a regular basis will not be attainable. This is the place What3Words is available in. It replaces these GPS coordinates with three distinctive phrases.
What3Words CEO Chris Sheldrick clarified that his firm is on no account competing with Google Maps or another mapping firm. What3Words is solely a further layer on prime of those present mapping companies to make the expertise higher and correct for finish customers.
What3Words has already partnered with courier corporations like BlueDart, DTDC together with automobile manufacturers like Tata Motors and Mahindra. It is completely free for shoppers and all it’s essential to do is simply obtain the app or entry the What3Words web site.
“In India, addresses are slotted under pin codes, which are associated with delivery post offices. These cover very broad areas with the chances of street names being duplicated or incorrect. This makes it difficult for customers to specify precisely where a delivery needs to be made, and for delivery drivers to find exactly where they need to go. These are issues what3words has been designed to solve,” in keeping with BlueDart.
What3Words can be obtainable offline in 54 languages, together with 12 South Asian languages: Hindi, Marathi, Tamil, Telugu, Bengali, Kannada, Nepali, Urdu, Gujarati, Malayalam, Punjabi and Odia.
