What3words: The app that can save your life
Police want everyone to download a smartphone app they say has already saved several lives.
www.bbc.co.uk
I have just downloaded it.
It works anywhere, in any place, land or sea, it will position you to within 10 metres. Whether they can come and rescue you is another matter!I have been meaning to look at this, not sure how useful it would be on private land in the middle of the forest but still worth having I think
Do you have to have phone signal to look up the 3 words? I assume yes, so that could be a sticking point
Yep I was just reading that, that's pretty legit ETA I just tried it out, I'm sat in my office, the GPS dot placed me in another part of the building, though I wouldn't know it were wrong if I was lost and without any visual landmarks to go by, it's great that it will get rescue services pretty close to youNo signal required - I think it uses GPS to give you the words from the downloaded database.
Just need the signal to tell them the code!