Google's Novel Opened Upwards Place Codes

Geocoding tin hold upwards real difficult. Postal addresses piece of work good inward many countries but tin hold upwards real inconsistent inward lots of other countries. It is likewise believed that over one-half the human population on the planet don't truly possess got a postal address.

Luckily nosotros tin piece of work latitude together with longitude to accurately position whatever location on a map. However a latitude together with a longitude are hard to remember. To overcome this occupation a release of other location coding systems possess got been invented to position locations alongside to a greater extent than easily remembered identifiable codes.


One of the best location codes has been devised past times What3Words. The What3Words location coding organization divides the globe into 57 trillion 3 x 3 meter squares. Each of those squares tin hold upwards uniquely identified alongside merely 3 words. If yous know the right 3 words yous tin directly discovery whatever location inward the world.

One of the biggest assets of What3Three is the piece of work of merely 3 easily remembered mutual words to stand upwards for each 3x3 meter foursquare on the planet. Imagine, for example, that yous wishing to run across your friends at a specific location inward the park. It could hold upwards a location that doesn't possess got an exact address, such equally beneath a detail tree. With What3Words yous merely necessitate to nation your friends to run across yous at 'grow longer bottle' together with they tin easily discovery the exact location using the What3Words desktop, Android or iOS app.


Google has at nowadays likewise released its ain Open Location Code. The novel Open Location Code uses a sequence of characters to position locations merely about the world. The showtime iv characters inward an Open Location Code depict a 1 score latitude past times 1 score longitude area, aligned on degrees.

To larn a code for a smaller surface area characters are added to the code. Adding 2 farther characters to the code, reduces the surface area to 1/20th of a score past times 1/20th of a score inside the previous area. And thence on - each duet of characters reduces the surface area to 1/400th of the previous area.

Currently Google Maps doesn't back upwards Open Location Codes. However, because Open Location Code is supported past times Google this novel organization could hold upwards worrying for other location coding systems. If Google always add together back upwards for Open Location Code to Google Maps thence the organization could truly take-off.

However the biggest occupation of Open Location Codes is that the codes themselves aren't real memorable. The Open Location Code for Times Square inward New York is '+87G8.Q257HW'. The What3Words code for Times Square is 'bolts.native.year'. The What3Words code is non solely to a greater extent than memorable it likewise easier to communicate to others, for event if yous necessitate to transcend on the code to a delivery service over the phone.

I don't mean value What3Words volition hold upwards worrying merely yet.