{"id":5430,"date":"2023-09-24T21:27:19","date_gmt":"2023-09-24T21:27:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.ackgame.com\/onwords\/?p=5430"},"modified":"2023-10-04T15:35:04","modified_gmt":"2023-10-04T15:35:04","slug":"what3words-in-the-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.ackgame.com\/onwords\/what3words-in-the-news\/","title":{"rendered":"What3Words in the news"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s been a while since I posted a W3W post. If you&#8217;re not familiar with the <a href=\"https:\/\/what3words.com\/clip.apples.leap\">website<\/a>\/app, it&#8217;s a clever system to identify any spot on the surface of the Earth using only three words. You can read more about it on the website or in my prior post here: <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.ackgame.com\/onwords\/what3words-name-game\/\">What3Words<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Every now and then it&#8217;s sobering to see how these random word combinations are so appropriate to the location, even newsworthy. 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