What is What3Words

What3Words is the simplest way to make reference to a location using a unique combination of three words for every 3 squer miter on earth. With this reference style it is easy to identify unmarked location deep in a forest or in the open sea. With What3Words, getting lost is now a thing of the past, and the question, "where are you?" has got a new answer made of three words.

A good number of picture contest on Steemit may require that you identify the location where the picture was captured. What3Words is one of the many mathod you could use to pinpoint any location on earth.

This is a picture of Crunches plus, I should be able to tell the exact location where this picture was captured if I truly snapped it.

How to use get the 3 Words

Step1:

Get to your web browser and type www.what3words.com
The What3Word site will load with a default location

Step2:

Use the search feature
This may take you to the exact location but if it fails to be exact, you can pan to navigate to the location

Step3:

Place a pin on the exact location you are interested in.
The three words for the location will be generated.

Step4:

Copy out the three words for the location

Createing a What3Word hyperlink

To create a What3Words hyperlink, type https://what3words.com/
Followed by the three words. The complete link should look like the link bellow.

https: //what3words.com/ word1,word2,word3

So the What3Words for Crunches plus is ///inflamed.ricocheting.rainforest
Placing it in the link will give us
https://what3words.com/ inflamed.ricocheting.rainforest

Markdown What3Words on Steemit

To use Markdown on Steemit to show a location you will simply do the following
[What3Word]
Followed by

And finally inflamed.ricocheting.rainforest).

The only thing displayed will be What3Word and will serve as a link to the picture's location.

Conclusion

With this lesson, I am certain we are going to have picture location properly labelled.