THE BIG 80 : What is What3Words

Hello steemian !

Thank you very much for have organizing the contest The Big 80 themed how to find location using What3Words.

as the intent of the contest, I will try to explain as best I can about what What3Words is and how it works so that it can be used to determine a location.

What is What3Words

What3Words is a simple application for mapping the earth's surface or more familiar among the general public is determining / identifying a location. Not only applications, but What3words can also be used easily, especially via smartphones.

Another advantage of the What3Words geolocation application is that it is not only easy to identify an address / location, but can share and save locations.

How does What3Words work

Especially for my friends "new users" on the platform, I'm going to recap a bit on how we got this app, and then how it works.

Let's just say this is a tutorial on how to use What3Words, the steps are as follows:

1. Please download the application What3Words first through playstore on your smartphone.

2. After downloading What3Words, make sure that the what3words application is active together with the Google Maps application at you smartphone

3. Start operating/using the What3Words app

4. Before pressing the "search" location button, make sure you enter 3 words in the search field (location/name of the city where you live

5. After What3Words displays the location of the city you mean, then you press the location search button again to display the position of where you are/the object you mean.

The What3Words application will display a map of the location/object in question as shown in the screenshot below.

After successfully finding or displaying the location/object you are referring to, this means that you have successfully used the What3Words application, and also have know how it works.

Question !
After knowing how What3Words works, what are the benefits of this geolocation or earth mapping application? What3Words makes it easier for someone to search for a location point such as the address of a place to live or an object, tourist attractions, business interests and the effectiveness of a job without having to enter latitude and longitude coordinate codes.

The advantage of What3Words is that it can save a map of a predefined or found location to send to family or friends. So they know where our current location is or the location of an object.

Example of Address Map location that I have retrieved via What3Words:
https://w3w.co/meniup.terbitan.blower

^{I have sent location map my current whereabouts to my son via whatsapp message}

^{I was enjoying a cup of coffee at the Kopi D'Crown Coffee shop in Lhokseumawe City map location}

To find the location of an object via What3Words, you don't have to attach or take a photo of the location, but at the end of this tutorial I deliberately took a photo as an example of a location photo for the purpose of clarifying myposition current, or an object in question, as shown above.

You can determine a location with What3Words after or before taking a picture, if you want.

Thus my participation on the contest THE BIG 80 : What is What3Words organized by Sir. @pennsif . Thank you for everything. I apologize if there is an error in this description.

Regards @ridwant
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