An IP Address for
Homes ?
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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
www.hemenparekh.in
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