Click on the map to see the geoword

GeoWords

… is an open source service and JavaScript package to assign every 3x3-square on earth a unique address based on words. It has various improvements in comparison to other providers, which you can see below.

3D

Share your floor number, parking level or other altitudes

📍

Share detailed positions inside buildings, e.g. a room, door or restaurant table

SOS

Usable via phone in emergency, because no words sound similar
(based on DoubleMetaphone)

📶🚫

Conversion between GPS and Geowords is always offline. More

🪐

Supports interstellar objects, space stations, or other objects-like buildings – even arbitrary polygons as tile shapes

🆓

OpenSource
npm install https://codeberg.org/mfrank/GeoWords
and build your own map … or have a look at the repository

✋

No trackers, no ads, full privacy!

🔎

Add it as search engine: geowords.script4all.com/#%s with %s as geoword to search for

Comparison

legend: click on cells, information as of January 2023
	📍	🆘
Geowords
Mapcode		(only country level)
Loc8
What3words		(similar soundings)
Eircode	(only 🏘)
Geohash.org		(more detail → longer)