ROANOKE COUNTY, Va. – Imagine only needing three words to help find someone who may be lost. Local emergency agencies in Southwest Virginia are doing just that through an app called ‘what3words’.

When a vehicle carrying a mother and young child was run off a road in a rural area of South West England, the Avon and Somerset Police department turned to a rather novel means of finding the ...

WALKER, Mich. — The Alpine Fire Department is implementing an app in the hopes of shortening their response times during rescue situations. "what3words" is an app that divides most of the globe into ...

A missing person was located and rescued from a forest in Evart, Michigan thanks to the What3words app. Evart Area firefighters say they were able to locate a lost person "deep" in a state forest on ...

A teen saved his younger brother using the what3words app to guide medics to their location when the little boy suddenly had a life-threatening seizure while they were 'in the middle of nowhere'.

Following a six-month pilot program, the Los Angeles Fire Department (LAFD) announced last month that it will officially adopt what3words, a technology product that can help responders to locate ...

If you twist your ankle in Zilker Park during the Austin City Limits Music Festival or the upcoming Austin Kite Festival and need to tell EMS exactly where you are by the volleyball courts, you can ...

Armed with nothing more than Google Maps and a trusty old travel guide, navigating as a tourist in 2018 is a fairly painless experience. But what if the place you’re visiting doesn’t have a reliable ...

In a bid to help to help those wanting to see the Queen’s coffin, the Government’s Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport (DCMS) has directed people to a livestream of a map showing the ...

Putting a new spin on the term “digital nomad,” U.K. addressing platform what3words has partnered with Airbnb to list stays with Mongolian nomads. The startup’s simplified addressing system is being ...

More than 75% of the world’s 7.4 billion people do not have a reliable mailing address. In some countries this means spending a few extra bucks on delivery fees or making several angry phone calls to ...

Geocoding startup what3words — which chunks the world into 3mx3m squares, giving each a unique three-word label to simplify location sharing — has nabbed another in-vehicle integration, via a ...