Chris Sheldrick: A precise, three-word address for every place on earth
כריס שלדריק: כתובת מדוייקת בת שלוש מילים לכל מקום בעולם
Chris Sheldrick is providing a precise and simple way to talk about location, by dividing the world into a grid of three-meter by three-meter squares and assigning each one a unique three-word address. Full bio
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without an address.
are trying to change that.
מנסים לשנות את זה.
and look at a favela in Brazil
ומביטים בפאוולות בברזיל
but a lot of empty space.
אבל הרבה מקומות ריקים.
homes and businesses
and unaddressed spaces.
וחסרי הכתובות האלו.
scrawled onto the sides of walls,
על פינות בניינים,
but not finished them.
אבל לא סיימו אותה.
these unaddressed places,
of addressing stuck with me.
business for 10 years,
about the music world
with the problems of addressing.
עם בעיית הכתובות.
who have to find the gigs
who bring the equipment,
ללוח הזמנים שלנו
to our schedules
when you thought you'd arrived
unloaded all the equipment
not an hour south of Rome,
called me and said,
אבל יכול להיות שכרגע עשינו בדיקת סאונד
but we may have just sound-checked
with a friend of mine
we could do something about.
שנוכל לעשות משהו בנוגע אליה.
we could make a new system,
latitude and longitude,
into three-meter squares.
לריבועים של שלושה מטרים.
three-meter squares,
בני שלושה מטר,
enough combinations
square in the world uniquely
לכל ריבוע בן שלושה מטרים בעולם
the 57-trillion-odd three-meter squares,
בני שלושה מטרים,
into three-meter squares,
three-word identifier --
singularly-tutorial.
should be able to use this system
צריכים להיות מסוגלים להשתמש במערכת הזו
like Xhosa, Zulu and Hindi.
כמו קוסה, זולו והינדי.
to their gigs on time.
למופעים שלהם בזמן.
that struggle with reliable addressing
שנאבקות עם כתובות אמינות
important applications.
three-word address signs
בנות שלוש מילים
when they go into labor,
where to pick them up from,
have often taken hours to find them.
היה לוקח שעות למצוא אותם.
have adopted the system
to many people's houses
to geotag photos in disaster zones
כדי לתייג תמונות באזורי אסון
to exactly the right place.
בדיוק למקומות הנכונים.
are using it in the Caribbean,
to find customers' homes,
למצוא בתים של לקוחות,
their pizza to them while its still hot.
את הפיצה שלהם כל עוד היא חמה.
to that exact spot.
has leapfrogged phone lines
to go straight to mobile payments.
ישר לשתלומים בניידים.
of three African countries --
של שלוש מדינות אפריקאיות --
three-word addresses,
to explain where they live, today.
was an annoying frustration,
their infrastructure growth,
ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Chris Sheldrick - EntrepreneurChris Sheldrick is providing a precise and simple way to talk about location, by dividing the world into a grid of three-meter by three-meter squares and assigning each one a unique three-word address.
Why you should listen
It's a fundamental logistical problem: not everyone, or everywhere, has a traditional address, and GPS coordinates can be tough to use. While working in the music industry, Chris Sheldrick noticed that bands and equipment kept getting lost on the way to gigs, and he took up the mission to create a better addressing system for the world. He worked with a mathematician friend to devise the what3words algorithm that has named every 3-metre square in the world. Started in 2013, the system is being used by eight national postal services, and has a range of integration partners across the world in fields as varied as humanitarian aid, logistics, and in-car navigation.
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