U.K. Police Are Using Three Words to Speed Up Response Times
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Locations of road traffic accidents, sexual assaults, and other serious crimes can now be reported to some U.K. police forces using three-word addresses, such as lake.serve.actor or tigers.gears.arrows.
The addresses are not code words, but the product of a system developed by What3Words Ltd., a mapping startup in London, which said Thursday that six emergency services are now making use of it.