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 :

www.What3Words.com

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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