Beaminster — May 7th 2019



16 members came along to our May meeting to hear Euan solve the mystery of the significance of bill.cools.fillers. It is the what3words address of our meeting location, the Beaminster Trading Post & Café What3words is a way of giving every 3x3 metre square on earth (all 57 trillion of them) a unique combination of 3 words. It was created in 2013 as a result of frustration at having things delivered to the wrong place. The creators were Sheldrick and Ganesalingam though others were involved in designing a system which, by virtue of the addresses being created by algorithms, the size of the software needed to operate it is very small (not a database of 57 trillion 3 words in each of 36 languages). It is valuable because it can direct emergency services or package deliveries to anywhere in the world, down back allies or as Euan illustrated - direct to your peripatetic yurt in Outer Mongolia (or was it Inner?). It is being adopted by the UK emergency services (announced March 2019) so Euan and Beaminster Augwessex are of course on-the-ball. It is free to load onto iPhones and iPads and can be used via the what3words website on a Mac.

More prosaic but very useful was the talk on the latest release of Notes, Using the latest iOS it can be used to record type-written notes, hand written notes, tables, tick list and drawings and hyperlinks. With the ability to store multiple notes in multiple folders the world of scraps of paper should be a thing of the past! David enthused over the application and the ability of the devices running Notes to decipher his hand writing and include hand-written words in text searches.

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