Chris Sheldrick: A precise, three-word address for every place on earth
Chris Sheldrick: Precizna adresa od triju riječi za svako mjesto na zemlji
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.
žive bez adrese.
are trying to change that.
moj tim i ja to pokušavamo promijeniti.
and look at a favela in Brazil
pogledate favelu u Brazilu,
but a lot of empty space.
ali mnogo praznog prostora.
homes and businesses
domova i trgovina
and unaddressed spaces.
i neadresiranom prostoru.
scrawled onto the sides of walls,
našvrljani brojevi i slova
but not finished them.
provedeni, ali ne i dovršeni.
these unaddressed places,
of addressing stuck with me.
business for 10 years,
industriji 10 godina,
about the music world
o glazbenom svijetu
with the problems of addressing.
bore s problemom adresiranja.
who have to find the gigs
moraju pronaći gaže,
who bring the equipment,
koje dovoze opremu,
to our schedules
rasporede dodati nekoga
when you thought you'd arrived
kada misliš da si stigao,
unloaded all the equipment
kamiona iskrcao svu opremu,
not an hour south of Rome,
umjesto sat južno od Rima
called me and said,
but we may have just sound-checked
smo upravo imali tonsku probu
with a friend of mine
nešto možemo poduzeti.
we could do something about.
we could make a new system,
da stvorimo novi sustav,
na stari sustav.
latitude and longitude,
geografska širina i duljina
into three-meter squares.
svijet u trometarske kvadrate.
three-meter squares,
trometarskih kvadrata
enough combinations
dovoljno kombinacija
square in the world uniquely
svijeta mogli dati jedinstveno ime
the 57-trillion-odd three-meter squares,
57 trilijuna trometarskih kvadrata,
into three-meter squares,
u trometarske kvadrate,
three-word identifier --
identifikator od triju riječi
singularly-tutorial.
should be able to use this system
da ljudi ovaj sustav mogu koristiti
like Xhosa, Zulu and Hindi.
kao što su xhosa, zulu i hindi.
to their gigs on time.
pravovremeno stižu na gaže.
that struggle with reliable addressing
koje se bore s nepouzdanim adresiranjem
important applications.
three-word address signs
od triju riječi
when they go into labor,
where to pick them up from,
have often taken hours to find them.
često trebali sati da ih pronađu.
have adopted the system
usvojila ovaj sustav
to many people's houses
to geotag photos in disaster zones
fotografija u područjima katastrofa,
to exactly the right place.
na precizno određeno mjesto.
are using it in the Caribbean,
to find customers' homes,
dok je još vruća.
their pizza to them while its still hot.
to that exact spot.
upravo do tog mjesta.
has leapfrogged phone lines
fazu telefonskih žica
to go straight to mobile payments.
i direktno usvojio mobilno plaćanje.
of three African countries --
operateri triju afričkih zemalja,
three-word addresses,
usvajanje adresa od triju riječi,
to explain where they live, today.
da objasne gdje žive, već danas.
was an annoying frustration,
predstavljalo je iritantnu frustraciju,
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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