Your full address including postcode;
Your phone number;
A photo of the front of your property or driveway entrance off the street;
Your “What Three Words” location which is accurate to three metres.
Despite all this their drivers used to claim “we can’t find you”… basically they were just relying on the post code alone (which takes you to the kid’s play park on the common behind our house), looking around, not seeing the house name and then bu%%ering off.
Fortunately they drivers have now got their act together and deliveries are reliable (best courier nowadays in fact).
Be careful using What Three Words in France. You have to make sure that the person you are sharing a location with has their app set to the same language as you. If you sent the location cat cheese tree it would not let them know where you are. Even if they tried chat fromage arbre it wouldn’t help. The three words for the square you are in are completely different in different languages.
That’s clearly true, but regardless of the language used by the app the location will still work e.g. if I set English as my main & only language but then use the French W3W address it still goes to the right place.
The multi language thing is one of the major att ractions of W3W. Even if you were a user of a very different language, say Hebrew, you can select English as the secondary language so when you select a location in Hebrew the English (or whatever secondary language you choose) version is also shown. All very handy for international rescue efforts
If you were a Japanese tourist lost in a forest in Germany you could still send your 3 word location (e.g. copy/paste via SMS) in Japanese to the local emergency services & they could still use that even if they don’t have Japanese language anywhere in their system.
