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by iso1631 81 days ago
> what3words Is terrible

Yes

> search and rescue teams are actively against people using it.

Sadly no

https://media.neas.nhs.uk/news/3-words-can-save-lives

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The company pushes it hard and some fall for the marketing

But locally here most SAR teams are against it

https://globalnews.ca/news/8258671/north-shore-rescue-what3w...

https://www.piquenewsmagazine.com/local-news/whistler-search...

seems like they’re quite against it going by what i found on reddit. https://www.reddit.com/r/searchandrescue/comments/1d63v94/wh...