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#22 3 words to invent a new address system with Chris Sheldrick, What3Words

#22 3 words to invent a new address system with Chris Sheldrick, What3Words

Update: 2017-08-28

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Chris is an entrepreneur who has invented a better way to navigate by taking on the address, GPS and postal space. He’s divided up the world into 57 trillion 3m squares and assigned 3 words to each one - a giant grid and the simplest way to communicate a location.

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#22 3 words to invent a new address system with Chris Sheldrick, What3Words

#22 3 words to invent a new address system with Chris Sheldrick, What3Words