Show HN: Location Aware Names – A universal location address

by roberdam • 12 years ago

4 1 12 years ago

roberdam• 12 years ago

Location Aware Names can be used to solve problems for: Astronomers, the worldbank, victims of a flood, african villagers , the united nations geographical names program, photographers, and maybe also for you.

Astronomers and Scientist : http://ubicate.me/moon

The WorldBank:

"50% or more of the city streets in these countries have no names or addresses, and the problem is particularly acute in the poorest neighborhoods. This creates a worrisome predicament for urban services. With no system of street coordinates and no baseline information, how do you find your way around a constantly growing city? How do you dispatch ambulances, firemen, and law enforcement personnel quickly? How do you send mail and messages to private homes? How do you locate urban facilities and infrastructure ? How do you pinpoint breakdowns in water,electricity, and telephone systems? How do you improve on-site collection of water and electricity bills? How do you set up an efficient local tax system?"

http://siteresources.worldbank.org/CMUDLP/Resources/461753-1...

African Villager with no Address: http://ubicate.me/BEPABIG-BONAZAS

United Nations Group of Experts on Geographical Names: " The United Nations Conference on the standardization of geographical names, convened every five years, continues to provide a forum:

to encourage national and international geographical names standardization; to promote the international dissemination of nationally standardized geographical names information; and to adopt single romanization systems for the conversion of each non-Roman writing system to the Roman alphabet." http://unstats.un.org/unsd/geoinfo/UNGEGN/mandate.html

Show HN: Location Aware Names – A universal location address

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