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Ian wrote: <> SatNav is similarly 2 dimensional. I was travelling south towards Liverpool (UK) when my wife said she wanted to visit the Liverpool Costco store. I wasn’t sure of its location, so I put the store postcode into the car SatNav, but it directed me into the Mersey Tunnel. About 300 ya

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and long to the same accuracy. Merry Christmas Ian Chester, UK Get Outlook for Android<https://aka.ms/ghei36> From: Michael Ossipoff Sent: 7:34PM, Monday, 26 December Subject: Re: Precise locations To: Ian Maddocks Cc: Douglas Bateman, Sundial list Two things that I ask someone t

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eir target market. They don't expect you to radio the coast > guard with your coordinates in this format! > > It's more accurate than a post code , and easy to remember compared to lat > and long to the same accuracy. > > Merry Christmas > > Ian > Chester

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I agree with Ian's comments but note that, just as for longitude/latitude, the system on its own does not constitute a delivery address. Just a few days ago I received a delivery from a courier who complained bitterly that the he'd had to call at several doors before finding me. The sender

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mat! It's more accurate than a post code , and easy to remember compared to lat and long to the same accuracy. Merry Christmas Ian Chester, UK Get Outlook for Android<https://aka.ms/ghei36> From: Michael Ossipoff Sent: 7:34PM, Monday, 26 December Subject: Re: Precise locations To: Ian Ma

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3W reference on the last line see > http://www.streetmap.co.uk/idgc.srf?x=538955&y=177217 for example > > Ian > > Ian Maddocks > Chester, UK > 53°11'50"N 2°52'41"W > frog.happy.froze > > > > -- > *From:* su

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To: Sundial list Subject: Re: Precise locations 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 top of the label N 42º 28

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sundial on behalf of Douglas Bateman Sent: 16 October 2016 15:58 To: Sundial list Subject: Re: Precise locations I have been told of another method called what3words.com<http://what3words.com> Designed in 2013 and developed since then, it uses a grid of the world made up of 57 trillion square

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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 addre

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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 squa

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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 top of the label N 42º 28’ 48” W 02º 29’ 08”. Although in a > small font