Help Us Find You With What3Words

Street addresses aren’t accurate enough to specify precise locations, such as building entrances, and don’t exist for parks and many rural areas. This makes it hard to find places and prevents people from describing exactly where help is needed in an emergency.

What is what3words?

What3words divided the world into 3 metre squares and gave each square a unique combination of three words. It’s the easiest way to find and share exact locations.

Why do I need a what3words address?

Around 75% of the world suffers from inconsistent, complicated, poor or no addressing systems. In total 4 billion people around the world don’t have an address.

But even in the countries in the world where addressing works okay, it’s far from perfect.

For example: there are eight different Lonsdale Roads around London, a lot of houses don’t have numbers, an address can’t tell you the correct entrance to a large building, and in unfamiliar countries the addressing can be difficult to understand.

what3words is perfect for these situations, and for the frequent moments when you need to talk about somewhere that doesn’t actually have a street address.

How are what3words addresses better than regular street addresses?

• what3words addresses are accurate to 3m x 3m, enabling them to specify a precise entrance, unlike a street address which identifies an entire building.
  
• They are all unique, unlike street addresses which are often duplicated – there are 14 Church Roads in London alone

• They cover everywhere, enabling people to easily communicate locations with no street address – parks and beaches, for example.
  
• They can be used in over 40 languages, while street addresses only exist in the local language. 
  
• They already exist for the entire world and are fixed so they never need updating. Street addresses have to be allocated, and the databases require constant updates as cities develop.