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hemen parekh
Nov 19, 02:36 GMT
An IP
Address for Homes ?
Times
of India ( 16 Nov ) reports :
“ Govt
will soon start to map your address digitally “
E-Link Aimed At Helping Identify Locations Easily
The
government wants to map your address—residential or professional—digitally,
something done by Aadhaar for an individual’s identification.
The
department of posts, under the communications ministry, has ordered a pilot
project that will accord a six character alpha-numeric digital address for
every property for three postal PIN code locations.
The
idea is to provide e-location (like on Google Maps) for the addresses
therein and then provide possibilities to link it to other information such
as property title and ownership, property tax records, information on
utilities like electricity, water and gas etc.
The
digital identity – say, UV77D7 – will be an e-enabled address that can be
used as parallel to the existing postal address
It
shortens an address into a combination of six alphabets and numbers.
You
can put it on your visiting card, on a website or share via any other
means.
If
someone is looking to reach you, the person needs to just enter the eLoc in
MapmyIndia's maps portal (or app) and it will instantly offer turn-by-turn
directions right up to your address.
MapmyIndia
MD Rakesh Verma told TOI :
"eLoc
will help travellers and commuters search, share and navigate to a
destination's exact doorstep far more easily and quickly.
It
will also reduce time, money, fuel wastage and expenses for businesses in
the e-commerce, transportation, logistics and field operations
domains,"
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This
is , without doubt , an excellent idea but it needs to be “ improved upon “
, since there are huts and cottages and just “ thatched roofs “ in the
middle of deserts or jungles or ( inaccessible by road ) mountain-sides or
valleys , which today have NO POSTAL ADDRESSES !
So ,
how do you “ Map “ a home / property / location , which has no existing “
Postal Address “ ?
Sure ,
you can use crossing of latitude and longitude – which is much longer
number ( than a 6 digit ) , difficult to remember and not precise enough to
deliver parcels or post !
I urge
the authorities to consider the scheme developed by :
which
has divided the entire surface area of the Earth into a grid of 3 meter by
3 meter squares and assigned each one a unique address made of just 3 words
A
total of 57 trillion squares
Each
assigned a UNIQUE COMBINATION of just 3 words , out of a total of 40,000
words !
Enabling
precisely locating ( online or offline ) any square by 3 word combinations
such as :
·
Music.chalks.lids
·
Parting.strumming.stileto
·
Dates.revealing.bind
I
expect the What3Word team will soon come up with following improvement :
·
Envisage a space-envelope around the Earth of 300 meters height
· That
height divided into 100 depths of 3 meters each
· That
would give “ 57 trillion multiplied by 100 “ pyramids of 4 sides each
·
Assign to each of these pyramids , a unique 4 word combination
· That
will enable to locate very precisely and dynamically , any object into
space ( of course, up to a height of 300 meters ) . Could be millions of
flying drones ?
In the
meantime , UID number ( KW 210995006 ) that BMC has assigned to the
building where I live in Mumbai , cannot be located on any BMC or
Maharashtra Government web site and there is no use mentioning on my
visiting card !
18 Nov
2017
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