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What3words (stylized as what3words) is a proprietary geocode system designed to identify any location on the surface of Earth with a resolution of about 3 metres (9.8 ft). It is owned by What3words Limited, based in London, England. The system encodes geographic coordinates into three permanently fixed dictionary words.
This is a list of FIPS 10-4 country codes for Countries, Dependencies, Areas of Special Sovereignty, and Their Principal Administrative Divisions.. The two-letter country codes were used by the US government for geographical data processing in many publications, such as the CIA World Factbook.
As part of UK sanctions against Russia, ISPs are required to take "reasonable steps to prevent" users accessing "an internet service provided by" a person or organisation sanctioned by the UK government. This effectively means blocking websites operated by such organisations. Organisations sanctioned are currently TV Novosti and Rossiya Segodnya.
According to the list of exhibitors on the official CES website, 41 companies from the UK will have a presence at the show, including Etc – the incubation arm within the BT Group, female tech ...
The live up-to-date position of the tail-end of the queue was publicised via the official website, using a what3words code. [24] [25] Of the first five codes published, four led to the wrong place, [26] including a suburb of London some 15 miles (24 kilometres) from the actual end of the queue. [24]
Plus Codes logo. The Open Location Code (OLC) is a geocode based on a system of regular grids for identifying an area anywhere on the Earth. [1] It was developed at Google's Zürich engineering office, [2] and released late October 2014. [3]
In March 2016 he started working as Chief Evangelist for What3words. [12] [13] In May 2016 he became an advisor for MapJam. [14] In October 2017, he joined DigitalGlobe. [15] In the summer of 2021 he was appointed Vice President of Community at TomTom. [16] In July 2022, it was announced that Coast had joined Grab as Head of Engineering, Geo ...
What3words has been subject to a number of criticisms both for its closed source code [1] and the high potential for ambiguity and confusion in its three word addresses [2]. This has resulted in some to advise against the use of What3words in safety critical applications [3] [4].-----