You do get some proper ones too though - like these ones:
This piece.
It's an Autoguide story about something that is probably the biggest thing to happen to maps in a very long time - and how Mercedes are getting on board with it.
Basically, someone has gone away and quietly divided the Earth into 3m x 3m squares and allocated every one of them a three word identity. I have some in my front garden and even more in my back garden. My property includes the words "boring", "slices" and "upset".
I'd love to know what algorithm they've used to allocate these words - and can they move them around?
For example, good.food.prices is in an industrial area in the town of New Tazewell, Tennessee - I'm sure a few supermarkets would pay good.money to have that in the middle of their canned goods aisle.
Not all words are included of course. The nearest they have to "Iver Child Bollards" is over.chill.billiards (it's in the bit of Angola that makes it look like a jigsaw piece)
location.location.location is in Russia.
The uses for this are incredible - imagine your ship is sinking at misspellings.appendages.history (for this covers the sea as well as land) - you could summon aid to exactly the right spot before you became a victim of The Bermuda Triangle.
Pirate treasure maps would be a lot simpler too.
This amazing tool is called what3words and can be found at https://map.what3words.com/daring.lion.race or on the Sat-navs of upcoming Mercedes models.
And my phone.
Incidentally, nice.cheese.sandwich is near the town of Los Mantos in Northern Chile.
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