Comment by kragen | Hacker News Reader

Comment by kragen | Hacker News Reader

This is absolutely hilarious, at least to my inner six-year-old. They seem to have filtered out words with obvious negative connotations like "ugly", words of under four letters, and maybe longer words. But through the magic of language, even very innocent words are subject to reinterpretation. And a lot of What3Words's words are actually not that innocent.

glorified.bodily.passage is in some farmland in the Netherlands, near Wijk en Aalburg: https://map.what3words.com/glorified.bodily.passage

beats.member.daily is in a gated community on Long Island: https://map.what3words.com/beats.member.daily

tugging.bunny.organ is a farmhouse or suburban house in Hungary: https://map.what3words.com/tugging.bunny.organ

pigs.pigs.pigs is a vacant lot in Loveland, Colorado: https://map.what3words.com/pigs.pigs.pigs

inflamed.flesh.massaged is some farmland near Stoke-on-Trent in England: https://map.what3words.com/inflamed.flesh.massaged

It's a lot worse in Spanish for some reason.

https://map.what3words.com/credit.card.denied is in Ontario

https://map.what3words.com/under.water.loans is south of London

https://map.what3words.com/shame.without.regret is in Norway

https://map.what3words.com/regret.without.shame is in Alaska

https://map.what3words.com/winter.winter.winter is near Chicago

https://map.what3words.com/summer.sunshine.happy is in Beijing

https://map.what3words.com/forgotten.previous.husband is in the middle of the south Atlantic ocean

https://map.what3words.com/imaginary.future.partner is somewhere in Russia

etc.

Even a small house has dozens of addresses. I checked and there is a different address in my kitchen than my bathroom, based on what3words website. If you find a certain combination offending, you can choose a different one, but on the other hand, on a single property there could be thousands of addresses, many of which funny or embarrassing.

Each what2words is supposed to correspond to a ~3 (or is it 9) by 3 metre square.

Somewhat off-topic, but this seems to me like it could also be useful for automated drone/self-driving car delivery in The Future (tm):

You could literally direct the packet to your front porch, balcony or whatever else place is best for you to accept it.

That would be perfect! Awesome comment.

Or you just use geocoordinates like everyone else. This project is aimed to make addresses more memorable for humans, machines do not have such a problem.

Machines do not. However, humans would find it difficult to memorize the GPS coordinates for their front porch - which is why trying an approach like this with pure GPS might not work.

Let's not forget https://www.google.com/maps/dir/Kissing,+Germany/Petting,+Ge...

Other systems aren't immune to this problem. Permit me to introduce you to Dennett Pl, Delta, BC, Canada. Proud owner of the postal code V4G1N4.

This system is incredibly accurate. The switch/server room in my company's office is located at renamed.random.wires.

just.like.home is in between a power plant and a chemical plant in England: https://map.what3words.com/just.like.home

They can't be trying very hard if swollen.member.blown is a valid address, which it is: https://map.what3words.com/swollen.member.blown

Maybe.Another.Day is a hospital in New York!

https://map.what3words.com/maybe.another.day

it's not found now =/

I guess the good news if your building is bigger than 3x3 meters than you get another chance?

Well there goes my afternoon. Ladies and Gentlemen, needy.member.smoked:

https://map.what3words.com/needy.member.smoked

in French, they probably put the most unused words they could find in the dictionnary. As an example, you have 'maussaderie', 'taniser', 'houblonner', 'époussette' or 'numismate'. I'm sure a good proportion of native speakers would have to use a dictionnary to find the meaning.

Also all valid:

surely.trim.organ stuff.small.organ tickle.long.organ milk.long.organ milk.needy.organ

glorified.body.openings

stiff.little.finger stiff.large.organ

take.fine.compost

wrong.wrong.wrong

My house is “former.decent.wiping” :-/

Are you sure you want to publicize your home address?

Perhaps he's moving to regrettable.internet.mistake.

Seems like an ideal place if you want to hide away from society!

Another address on that location that is rather funny is 'jeeps.fairly.cheat'

It's interesting that this is so fun. (My home address resolves to something satisfyingly naughty.) An app that just generated random three word phrases wouldn't be fun, and neither would one that mapped every point on earth to a dirty phrase.

This game should be called wat3words.

I am having atomic.dining.today.

for the Marvel fans, longing.rusted.furnace is a mountain road north of Verona, Italy. The system doesn't use numbers, so thats as far as you can go if you want to write some sort of Winter Soldier fanfiction based on this.

Those are absolute gold. I'm dying.

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