Re: Precise locations

2016-10-16 Thread Fabio
The QR code is a very efficient and spedly way to get info or to reach a website. Really you can encode any string, like info, coordinates or link to a website. If you wish to encode something in a QR code there are a lot of sites to get it, recently I used: goqr.me On Sundial Atlas every

Re: Precise locations

2016-10-16 Thread Ian Maddocks
Hi Doug If you haven't been concentrating I added the W3W address to my signature a few months back. Given the 3 m resolution you actually get a few choices of what address to pick for any given plot of land. frog.happy.froze is actually more my living room than front door. I wandered the

Re: Precise locations

2016-10-16 Thread Richard Mallett
On 16/10/2016 16:58, Douglas Bateman wrote: I have been told of another method called what3words.com Designed in 2013 and developed since then, it uses a grid of the world made up of 57 trillion squares of 3 metres by 3 metres. Each square has been given a 3-word

Re: Precise locations

2016-10-16 Thread Douglas Bateman
I have been told of another method called what3words.com Designed in 2013 and developed since then, it uses a grid of the world made up of 57 trillion squares of 3 metres by 3 metres. Each square has been given a 3-word address. what3words has named the 17 trillion

Re: Precise locations

2016-10-16 Thread Martina Addiscott
In message Douglas Bateman wrote: > Sundiallers like to give precise locations for dials, but (a little off-list) > I have a bottle of Campo Viejo Rioja 2014 wine in front of me which gives at > the

Precise locations

2016-10-16 Thread Douglas Bateman
Sundiallers like to give precise locations for dials, but (a little off-list) I have a bottle of Campo Viejo Rioja 2014 wine in front of me which gives at the top of the label N 42º 28’ 48” W 02º 29’ 08”. Although in a small font it is clearly printed above the brand name. Google Earth shows