What three words

[stevent]

This app is brilliant ... and could save your life.

Or help you find a byway or a lost riding pal.

Locate yourself on planet earth with three words.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-49319760




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[kris]

hear hear ... great app - should be a stickie this or mentioned at club night and mandatory download

[stevent]

Agreed, we will have some fun with it at club night next week


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[PippaB]

Boing. Said. Zebedee!


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[silvergull]

Very curious! But does bring to mind in a recent incident, when the caller gave the emergency services a map reference number, specifically a latitude/ longitude reading, they were unable to use or even understand this. So maybe it has come to this. I wonder if fhe people mentioned in the BBC article had had some sort of map on their phones, or even a paper map, if they would have been able to locate themselves without relying on a 999 call out?

[silvergull]

Boing. Said. Zebedee!


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I have tested your 3 words, Pippa, and hope you are a having a great time in right now in Ulan Bataar, its amazing where you can get to on a trail bike really.

[PippaB]

Hehe, they were the first 3 words that sprang to my mind! Awesome I would love to go to mongolia ....I'm guessing if one downloads this map app thing, one would have to have the location switched on the phone? Only have location switched on whilst trying to record viewranger and then I make a right dogs dinner out of that one too!
Brilliant idea, prob download it anyways, then go and get lost, switch location on and find myself in Mongolia

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[kris]

some funny options here too

https://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/top ... 96409&i=-9