[tr33house]

When I was in college, I'd come up with a similar concept for creating addresses for the developing world. For those that don't know, most of the world actually doesn't have any address and the governments have no plans in place to solve this.

Basically have a third party DNS like company and all it would do would be digital addressing. Since we would also deliver the mail, there was the added benefit of not sharing your actual address, temporarily sharing it, having alternatives based on day, kind etc and potentially just sharing your phone number as your address etc etc

Looking back, this would've been a great company but one that almost no investor would fund

[1718627440]

I have never understood this. You build a house somewhere, develop your existence, etc.. Surely you have a way of telling others where you live? Simply give your place a name, if there are multiple buildings there, give them numbers, et voila you have an address. Why isn't this what is happening? Isn't this what happened everywhere where there are addresses? We don't have street names and numbers, because a central number authority chose to assign them, we have them because humans give things names in order to refer to them. So whenever someone is claiming that there are people living without an address, I find that incomprehensible.

[postexitus]

how will people (i.e. postal service) find this address if there is no central authority?

[postexitus]

Completely different benefit proposal, but doesn't what3words kind of do this?

[GJim]

Giving your lat and long solves this, without recourse to proprietary systems, similar sounding words or requiring a proficiency in the English language.

What 3 words is pants.