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Wired’s Steve Levy on Meta and What3words’ founder Chris Sheldrick on mapping the world

The Times Tech Podcast

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A Very Simple Way to Talk About Any Location

The world is divided into three meteor squares, or tense squares. 57 trillion of those around the world are named with three random words from the dictionary. This gives a very simple way to talk about any location without having to use g p ordinates and other complicated systems.

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