As well, not only is Mercedez Benz using the system in its cars, but the app is being used for Mongolia's postal service and Lonely Planet now includes three-word addresses for points of interest.

Now, an app called what3words can help. It’s a free app that lets you pinpoint your location using a combination of three unique words.

New location app has a unique way of making sure you can find anyone anywhere in the world using just three words.

If you're ever in trouble, your life could be saved by using three simple words. Find out more.

What3words removed any hyphenated words, curse words, and homophones. That left the team with 40,000 words, which composed some 64 trillion unique three-word combinations.

Those three words helped Waterloo Regional Police Service (WRPS) find a woman who was lost at night on the Walter Bean Trail in Cambridge, Ont., earlier this month. The woman was using the app ...

What3words is a smartphone app that divides the entire planet into 57 trillion squares, each measuring three metres by three metres, and assigns each a unique sequence of three words.

You don’t need a phone signal to tell someone your three-word location using the app. How was a stranded kayaker saved by the app?

Each location has a different set of three words to locate you anywhere in the world (Image: What3words) The location app provides a precise and incredibly simple way to talk about location.

A stranded kayaker rescued by using an app has urged everyone to download it as it could “save your life”.