Day2-1130-Open source street addresses

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Open-source street addressing or Do not adjust your map, there is a problem with reality Doug Rinckes Google Switzerland

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> 50% % of urban population, worldwide, who live on an unnamed street

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~20,000,000 Kilometers of roads* without names (just over half) "Traffic" roads, geofabrik.de files, OSM 20170529 extract

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10% to 25% 25% to 50% 50% to 75% > 75% < 10% Percent of road network named "Traffic" roads, geofabrik.de files, OSM 20170529 extract

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There is a problem with reality Do not adjust your map

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Door No. 34/499 C, Green Earth Buildings, Behind Church of God & Kirthi Diamond Jewellery, N.H.Byepass, Palarivattom Signal Junction,Opposite to Green Consumer Home Appliances and Apple A Day building in the N.H.Byepass Four Lane Road, Poriyampadam Link Road, Edapally Post, Palarivattom, Ernakulam, Kerala 682024, India Near the old bus stop, India

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Cholera in London 1854 Death records included street addresses allowing map to be produced. Map enabled identification of infected water supply and investigation of anomalies. Public health implications of no addresses can be huge.

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Cold pizza in Praia, Cape Verde 2017 Deliveries in an unaddressed area are slow and inefficient. Can you find the blue house? It's near a yellow house. Now do it at night.

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Not everyone has a smart phone Not everything is near a road Addresses should be free

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37.485812,139.934313 Start with a latitude and longitude...

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8Q9XFWPM+8P Encode to a global code...

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8Q9XFWPM+8P Aizu-Wakamatsu Identify a locality...

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FWPM+8P Aizu-Wakamatsu Shorten the code

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FWPM+8P Aizu-Wakamatsu Fukushima Prefecture 965-0807 Japan

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Search Support the global code, local and compound codes in searches. You can help! Conversion Provide ways to convert from latitude/longitude to long plus code, and to compute the compound code (with the locality). Display Display the codes to users. If you can get a compound code, show that. If not, show the long code.

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Resources Website: https://plus.codes Open source code and docs: github.com/google/open-location-code Public discussion group: groups.google.com/group/open-location-code Contact the team at Google: olc_enquiry@google.com