Ideas for FoI re use of W3W

W3W is What3Words Limited, company 08400008, or any affiliated organisation.

Please provide copies of:-

• All minutes of meetings, copies of communications, details of financial transactions relating to W3W.
• Details of how other organisations can arrange promotion by your organisation on social media, in the same was as your promote W3W.
• Details of research you did on suitability of W3W before adopting it and promoting it to the public.
• Copies of any due diligence done on use of W3W for emergency use, in particular:
  • Consideration of the time taken in an emergency situation for the requirement (as per W3W T&Cs) to re-check the T&Cs each time, and the requirements (as per W3W T&Cs) to read and understand all the T&Cs, each time the service is used, and how that delay in doing so can impact the response time of an emergency service.
    
    
  • Consideration of the fact that W3W T&Cs prohibit use where its use could lead to loss of life.
    
  • Consideration of error cases, such as mis-heard words, different accents, different languages, homonyms, plurals, and so on.
• Details of alternatives considered, and if they have also been deployed, such as
  • AML (Automatic Mobile Location)
  • Ordnance Survey grid reference, and use of apps and web sites that show this.
  • SARLOC (Search and Rescue location) text message system.
  • etc.