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.

What3words is an app and web-based service that provides a geographic reference for every 3-meter-by-3-meter square on Earth using three random words.

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.

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.

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

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?

When downloaded onto a smartphone, the app pinpoints your location via GPS, much like Google Maps, but gives your location in the three-word code. That code is what others would use to locate you.

Mapping Emergency services using precise three-word locator system What3Words app gives 3m squares an identifying series of words, across the world Nov 04, 2020 500 words 2 minutes By Angelica Haggert ...

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

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.