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California State Parks Partners With what3words to Assist Lost or Stranded Visitors

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California State Parks is excited to announce its partnership with innovative location technology, what3words. A new tool in the State Parks toolkit, what3words, provides dispatchers with state-of-the-art technology to assist visitors if they become lost, stranded, or otherwise need help from emergency services. Using this revolutionary technology, State Parks dispatchers can now pinpoint the precise locations of individuals who become [โ€ฆ]

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what3words: A Simplified and Possible Lifesaving Location App

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The smartphone app, what3words, can pinpoint a location using three randomly assigned words. The developers of the app divided the world into 57 trillion squares, each square measuring 10ft by 10ft (3m by 3m). Every square was then assigned its own three-word address. For example, the three-word address for Mount Shastaโ€™s summit is โ€˜clued.speakers.amountโ€™. The app is already being used in [โ€ฆ]

Taliana Potts | August 21, 2019
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