This guy came up with an easy to remember address for everyone on the planet
How cool is this.
…about four billion people on the planet actually live in places that have no street names, no house numbers - in fact, nothing that constitutes a proper address…
http://www.bbc.com/news/business-32444811
"…What he did was to divide the world up into 3m-by-3m squares, and assign each a unique combination of three words.
He says: “With 40,000 dictionary words, you have 64 trillion combinations, and there are 57 trillion squares.”
Mr Sheldrick’s own headquarters in west London has the address index.home.raft, while this article was written at speaks.nests.loans."
The service is free to use for consumers and can be downloaded in app form, but companies pay to license the technology and incorporate it into their own products.
“…In fact, the system is now available in eight languages, including French, Spanish, Russian, German, Turkish and Swedish”
Don’t you just love the creativity of people. Much more friendly than latitude and longitude. Easy to remember.
Anybody have something awesome to share?