What3Words
What3Words is an amazing and potentially game-changing method of describing any location on earth in three words and it is already in use in some countries!!
In this system the world is broken up into 3 metre squares and each of these has a unique name formed of three words.
The example flows here will allow you to enter latitude,longitude and get out a word triplet - and vice-versa.
There is a fantastic introduction (I don't know the guy - I just found the link and went down the rabbit-hole) here...
There are APPS for Android and Apple and a map website where you can discover the three words for any location. https://map.what3words.com
You can find ant location by adding the words to the URL - for example
https://map.what3words.com/brass.visa.sting
Here is the developer page to get your free API key (in my examples (I've put XXXX in the injectors - you need your free API key).
https://what3words.com/developers/
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