Pipe Industry Analysis

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- The map made by w3w has a unique way of pin pointing places which others don’t have. For example: the spot where I am sitting is now a place which can be defined in just 3 words. It can be named as we wish by buying the words known as one-word tag.

- This makes it easier for individual to get anywhere, even to a remote location. The street addresses or postal codes takes us close to the destination but w3w pinpoints to a particular position which does not require any GPS coordinate.

- It serves not only in developed countries but also in less developed parts of the world where we don’t have any particular address or postal code.

- In the developed world, poor or incomplete address data is frustrating and costly for businesses. For the developing world, the situation is even worse. The inability to define where you live limits opportunities for growth and can even be life-threatening.

- Using words means non-technical people can find any location more accurately and most importantly, communicate it more quickly, more easily and with less ambiguity than any other system.

- Because the naming system for the 3 meter by 3 meter grid is fixed, it can also be used offline with no data connection. Since it's also powered by an algorithm, rather than a massive database, the application is very lightweight (less than 10 megabytes).

- Google Maps only shows few streets while in reality there are more than thousands of them.

- “SnooCode” offers a similar service, but it's limited to Ghana.

- The lack of addressing in emerging markets is "a big issue". For example, In the Middle East, home addresses are not the same as mailing addresses and most of what gets mailed to consumers either gets lost or takes forever to arrive.

- The beauty here is that this method doesn’t require English as the global language; rather, it empowers individual languages to maintain relevance while still simplifying destination discovery globally.