Last Thursday on #GeoChat, Chris the CEO of what3words joined us to discuss the need for a better addressing system.

What is #GeoChat again?

What is #GeoChat and why you should participate! https://t.co/z8jQbbaW3G pic.twitter.com/O5JjRs1I7a

— Geoawesomeness (@geoawesomeness) April 7, 2016

Lets get it started!

@geoawesomeness All ready 🙂 #geochat

— Chris Sheldrick (@ChrisSheldrick) April 7, 2016

Why does the world need a 3 word address?

@geoawesomeness The world needs a way of simply communicating locations, a version of lat/long that everyday people can use #GeoChat

— Chris Sheldrick (@ChrisSheldrick) April 7, 2016

And that twitter poll comes in handy

@ChrisSheldrick2 Well isn’t that why we (still) have those long postal addresses? At least some think so – https://t.co/PH7lBX5v8E #GeoChat

— Geoawesomeness (@geoawesomeness) April 7, 2016

Postal addresses don’t work as well as we might think they do!

@chrissheldrick2 @geoawesomeness #geochat I think also non-urban applications seem likely – agriculture or recreation for instance?

— Will Cadell (@geo_will) April 7, 2016

agricultural applications are a good example of the limitations in our current postal system.

@geo_will @geoawesomeness Absolutely, rural areas are almost always badly addressed. Large farms often only have one address #geochat

— Chris Sheldrick (@ChrisSheldrick) April 7, 2016

What3Words across the world

@maptiks #geochat we are used in 170 countries. Businesses/apps/sites who struggle with addresses are embracing w3w: https://t.co/oztObqmHAv

— Chris Sheldrick (@ChrisSheldrick) April 7, 2016

And its going to be available in many more languages

@lovikovy #geochat newest are Mongolian, Hausa, Hindi, Bengali, Wolof, Polish, Finnish. Great to learn about all these languages.

— Chris Sheldrick (@ChrisSheldrick) April 7, 2016

Speaking of Greek 😉

.@what3words in #Greek? Wonder if we’ll have a alpha.beta.gamma location 😉 Off-topic #GeoChat https://t.co/W8oO5UpMpa

— Geoawesomeness (@geoawesomeness) April 7, 2016

Industry talk!

@geoawesomeness #geochat w3w not to help #geogeeks personally as lat/lon is 2nd nature, it helps their non-geo users – which helps everyone

— Chris Sheldrick (@ChrisSheldrick) April 7, 2016

Indoor addresses?

@geoawesomeness #geochat Possible but limited benefit until ind pos, ind maps, ind nav improves – we'll look to add opt. z param in future.

— Chris Sheldrick (@ChrisSheldrick) April 7, 2016

The API model

@geoawesomeness @what3words #geochat Yes, API model with free tier so it's easy and free for low volume users.

— Chris Sheldrick (@ChrisSheldrick) April 7, 2016

Interesting use cases

@geoawesomeness #geochat 1:Favela delivery https://t.co/IxjrFtfmDq 2:Festivals: https://t.co/pJEnkPwFck 3:UN https://t.co/mhS08teG5c

— Chris Sheldrick (@ChrisSheldrick) April 7, 2016

Isn’t this cool?

Haha, how #Geoawesome is this!! Tables.Empty.Workshops @what3words is your gallery name? #GeoChat https://t.co/hAtBzJXTSy

— Geoawesomeness (@geoawesomeness) April 7, 2016

Okay, how about writing a song?

@geoawesomeness #geochat Yes. Lyrics would be long. Today someone made this: makes a w3w song for you as you walk: https://t.co/iG8DgeJP4W

— Chris Sheldrick (@ChrisSheldrick) April 7, 2016

The Vision!

.@geoawesomeness To make a positive difference to people's lives through providing addresses people can use – everywhere. #geochat

— Chris Sheldrick (@ChrisSheldrick) April 7, 2016

Oh and one last thing

@geoawesomeness unfort not as we don't use homophones (piece/peace). And we only do 3m x 3m. Otherwise yes 😉 #geochat

— Chris Sheldrick (@ChrisSheldrick) April 7, 2016

Until the next #GeoChat

Thanks for the interesting #GeoChat questions everyone! Its been a great evening 🙂 Until the next #GeoChat 🙂 pic.twitter.com/gxNQGEjFLR

— Geoawesomeness (@geoawesomeness) April 7, 2016