Getting Post. Code Riight

[Andrewcook]

I've found out that my Horror of postcode was not correct as my food went somewhere else make sure you check it before you Order your food or goods

[annv]

Yes the post code for my house is a long way from it, and on a side road, this is the one the post office gave me. but ! if i click on post codes it comes up a different one. I suspect that this is why Ambulances some times go to a wrong address. I use one for post and a different one for tradesmen. John

[CambridgeCabby]

It’s in such cases that the accuracy of What3Words comes into its own . 

[FairTmiddlin]

42 minutes ago, CambridgeCabby said:

It’s in such cases that the accuracy of What3Words comes into its own . 

Which should be used by all logistics companies. Imagine Evri, Yodel, DHL and Amazon being able to pinpoint your front door to within 1 metre

[grendel]

1 hour ago, FairTmiddlin said:

Which should be used by all logistics companies. Imagine Evri, Yodel, DHL and Amazon being able to pinpoint your front door to within 1 metre

but not by people recording cable joint positions using their mobile phone, the what 3 words defines a 3m square- but is limited in accuracy by the accuracy of the mobile phone gps (unless you pull up the map and use that to find the correct square) in this case they assured me it was accurate, then I asked them what scuba gear they were using to do a joint in the middle of the river lee. (over 20m from the actual joint location)

[Wussername]

1 hour ago, grendel said:

but not by people recording cable joint positions using their mobile phone, the what 3 words defines a 3m square- but is limited in accuracy by the accuracy of the mobile phone gps (unless you pull up the map and use that to find the correct square) in this case they assured me it was accurate, then I asked them what scuba gear they were using to do a joint in the middle of the river lee. (over 20m from the actual joint location)

Well you have lost me a little bit there Grendel. Easily done.

One of the problems with What3Words is that you have to be particularly accurate in your pronouncement of the words. Get it wrong and your rescue service will scarper off in the wrong direction. Regional dialects can cause a problem. 

A few months ago I was travelling from North Walsham via Stalham, Acle. Strumpshaw having visited my wife in hospital after a somewhat traumatic month. A cold, windy night on  fairly fast country roads. My car quite literally failed between Potter Heigham and Acle. The car was in a very dangerous place. I needed specialised recovery for a large automatic car. I did know exactly where I was stranded. But I was unable to explain exactly where. I was able to give the emergency controller the What3Words to identify my position to within a few meters. She in turn confirmed my position by identifying certain points of reference which related to where I was and that I recognised. Two armed response vehicles from Norfolk Constabulary attended. High powered cars. Lights blazing. I am not a young man, I had vacated my car and stood on this very exposed bank, out of danger, I was very cold. In the east the wind is neither fit for man nor beast. 

The young officer, I am of an age that they are all young but these two guys armed to the teeth particular so. Hop in my car and warm your self. I choose the wrong car. 

DO NOT ENTER the car. Enter the BMW. Gulp!

To this day I do not know what was in the unmarked car.

What3Words is fantastic but it has its limitations, however, for me on that particular night it was my salvation.