Google Maps Not Accurate? What3words May Be A Better Choice For Navigation In India – News18

Google Maps is the first navigation app for almost all in India. However, with India’s increasing street community and growing inhabitants density in city areas, Google Maps can typically be very unreliable. So, what to do when Google Maps fails you? Well, there’s an answer from UK-based What3Words.

Yes, the identify ‘What3Words’ might sound a bit uncommon for a navigation platform nevertheless it’s true to what it really does. You can discover the precise location and navigate to the placement by looking with “three words”. How? The What3words platform has marked the whole world map into 3m x 3m squares and has tagged all attainable GPS coordinates of Earth with three distinctive phrases. For instance, if you happen to kind “straddled.sprayer.sponsors” on the search field of What3Words web site or app, it can instantly take you to the exact entrance of the Taj Mahal. And if you would like your pals to satisfy on the entrance of the Taj Mahal, all you have to do is share these 3 phrases– “straddled.sprayer.sponsors”- with them.

Now, the following large query is, how will you bear in mind these 3 phrases for each location? Well, technically you don’t want to do this. At probably the most, you have to bear in mind the three phrases on your house or workplace with the intention to share together with your Uber driver, pals and others.

While Google Maps appears to be like like the last word navigation app, in actuality it simply provides a chook’s eye view. Now, going again to the identical Taj Mahal instance, the doorway of the Taj Mahal has the GPS coordinates: 27.174528, 78.047806. To make your pals meet at this precise spot, you’ll have to share this GPS coordinate. It goes with out saying that utilizing GPS coordinates on a regular basis is just not attainable. This is the place What3Words is available in. It replaces these GPS coordinates with three distinctive phrases.

What3Words CEO Chris Sheldrick clarified that his firm is under no circumstances competing with Google Maps or another mapping firm. What3Words is solely a further layer on prime of those present mapping providers to make the expertise higher and correct for finish customers.

What3Words has already partnered with courier firms like BlueDart, DTDC together with automobile manufacturers like Tata Motors and Mahindra. It is completely free for shoppers and all you have to do is simply obtain the app or entry the What3Words web site.

“In India, addresses are slotted under pin codes, which are associated with delivery post offices. These cover very broad areas with the chances of street names being duplicated or incorrect. This makes it difficult for customers to specify precisely where a delivery needs to be made, and for delivery drivers to find exactly where they need to go. These are issues what3words has been designed to solve,” based on BlueDart.

What3Words can be accessible offline in 54 languages, together with 12 South Asian languages: Hindi, Marathi, Tamil, Telugu, Bengali, Kannada, Nepali, Urdu, Gujarati, Malayalam, Punjabi and Odia.