What Three Words, and Your 2600 Meeting
You know you should attend 2600 meetings (held the first Friday of every month when there isn't a global pandemic) where you get to meet other readers of our fine publication, but how do you get other people to find your meeting? Of course, you're giving out the address of the meeting venue, be it a bookstore cafe, pub, food court, or restaurant. But what if your meeting venue is off the beaten track? If it's a large food court, where among the many tables should a visitor look for you?
There is a relatively new method of giving people your location that is nearly foolproof in the smartphone era. A website has started up called "What Three Words." Needless to say, its web address is: WhatThreeWords.com
It has a "short form" address of w3w.co which can be followed by a slash character and the three words that will describe any location that has a Three Word Address - and that is literally everywhere.
Planning to be near Titusville, Florida on the first Friday of the month? You can find the meeting I host at the local Krystal Hamburgers with: w3w.co/scarring.portfolio.manliness
That particular location is the back corner of the place where the electrical outlets provide power to my laptop so I can get on the free Internet in the restaurant during meeting time. But check my website in case of a change (like during Virus Season): CheshireCatalyst.Com/2600tix.
If you have a good friend or significant other that you commonly rescue when they have car problems, be sure they put the What Three Words app on their own phone. When it comes up, it determines the location of the phone, and has a "Share" option. They can put the Three Words into a text message that will bring up their location when you tap the link in the incoming message, and then you tap the "Directions" button, and you're off to the rescue.
The three words (separated by "dot" characters) are determined by an algorithm and tracks to a square three meters by three meters (ten feet by ten feet) so that once you get within ten feet of what you're looking for, you're probably close enough to see your destination. It works particularly well for places that don't have street addresses, such as a picnic spot in a public park where you might want to have a reunion party.