Share your location
Share your exact spot in three words.
An address gets someone to the building. It does not get them to you. LOC8 gives every spot a three-word address that drops the other person on the exact 3 metre square you are standing on.
When an address is not enough
An address gets a unit to a building. It does not put them next to you. Send someone to 1200 Galleria Blvd and they can roll up out front while you are behind it, three floors up, or out in the field past the tree line. The address was right. They still cannot see you.
A street number assumes one door, one structure, one posted sign. Real calls do not work like that. A mall is one address and forty storefronts. A park or an open field is acres with no number at all. A parking lot, a construction site, a trailhead, a stretch of highway known only by its mile marker, a piece of rural land with nothing posted on the gate. In every one of those, the address stops short of where you actually are.
Where "the address" stops helping
- A sprawling apartment or retail complex with one address and a dozen separate buildings
- An open field, park, or lot with no street number anywhere on it
- A stretch of highway known only by mile marker, miles from the nearest cross street
- Rural property with no posted street number, just a gate and a long drive
How the three-word address works
LOC8 is officially integrated with what3words, which has divided the entire world into 3 metre squares and given each square its own unique combination of three words. The patch of ground you are standing on right now has three words, and no other square on earth shares them.
Share those three words and the other person opens that exact square in the LOC8 app or on what3words. No street address to track down. No dropped pin to interpret. No string of coordinates to read aloud digit by digit. Three plain words, spoken over the radio or sent in a text, land them within 3 metres of you.
Send it. They tap it. They are on you.
Open LOC8
Your three-word address is right there with your live position the moment the app opens.
Send the three words
Share it by a tap, or read the three words over the radio. No coordinates to spell out.
They land on your square
They open it in LOC8 or on what3words and navigate to the exact square, not just the street.
Why officers use it
Precise to 3 metres
A three-word address pins a single 3 metre square, not a block or a building. They land on you, not near you.
No address required
It works in fields, lots, and rural sites that have no street number on them at all.
Easy to say out loud
Three plain words beat reading off a long string of coordinates digit by digit on a hot call.
Opens for anyone
The other person opens it in the LOC8 app or on what3words. No special setup on their end.
Sharing, answered
What is a three-word address?
A unique combination of three words for your exact 3 metre square, powered by what3words. Share it and anyone can find that precise spot.
Does the other person need LOC8?
No. They can open the three words in the LOC8 app or on what3words to navigate to your square.
How precise is it?
Down to a 3 metre square, far tighter than a street address.
Is this what3words?
Yes. LOC8 is officially integrated with what3words for sharing your exact location.
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