Chris Sheldrick: A precise, three-word address for every place on earth
Chris Sheldrick: Un indirizzo preciso, di tre parole, per ogni luogo sulla Terra
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.
vivono ancora senza un indirizzo.
cerchiamo di cambiare tutto questo.
are trying to change that.
and look at a favela in Brazil
e guardate una favela in Brasile,
but a lot of empty space.
e poi molto spazio vuoto.
homes and businesses
case e attività imprenditoriali
and unaddressed spaces.
non mappati e senza indirizzo.
scrawled onto the sides of walls,
scarabocchiati sui muri:
but not finished them.
ma non li hanno completati.
these unaddressed places,
potenziale economico.
of addressing stuck with me.
mi occupo di indirizzi.
nel campo della musica
business for 10 years,
about the music world
with the problems of addressing.
who have to find the gigs
trovare i concerti,
who bring the equipment,
che portano l'attrezzatura,
to our schedules
pensava di essere arrivato,
when you thought you'd arrived
unloaded all the equipment
di un camion scaricò l'attrezzatura
not an hour south of Rome,
e non un'ora a sud di Roma,
called me and said,
but we may have just sound-checked
al matrimonio sbagliato.
catastrofico di Roma,
with a friend of mine
we could do something about.
su come risolvere il problema.
we could make a new system,
di creare un nuovo sistema,
non funzionassero.
qualcosa di molto preciso,
latitude and longitude,
latitudine e longitudine,
into three-meter squares.
in quadrati di tre metri.
three-meter squares,
di quadrati di tre metri,
abbastanza combinazioni
enough combinations
square in the world uniquely
a ogni quadrato di tre metri nel mondo,
di combinazioni di tre parole,
the 57-trillion-odd three-meter squares,
di quadrati di tre metri,
into three-meter squares,
in quadrati di tre metri,
three-word identifier --
singularly-tutorial.
should be able to use this system
il sistema nella loro lingua.
like Xhosa, Zulu and Hindi.
come xhosa, zulu e hindi.
to their gigs on time.
ai loro concerti in orario.
that struggle with reliable addressing
che hanno problemi con gli indirizzi
davvero molto più alta.
important applications.
three-word address signs
con indirizzi di tre parole
when they go into labor,
dove venirle a prendere,
where to pick them up from,
have often taken hours to find them.
potrebbero impiegare ore, per trovarle.
have adopted the system
hanno adottato questo sistema,
to many people's houses
di fare consegne a domicilio,
to geotag photos in disaster zones
le foto nelle zone dei disastri,
esattamente dove servono.
to exactly the right place.
are using it in the Caribbean,
to find customers' homes,
a trovare le case dei clienti
la pizza ancora calda.
their pizza to them while its still hot.
to that exact spot.
esattamente dove volete.
le linee telefoniche di terra
has leapfrogged phone lines
to go straight to mobile payments.
a favore dei pagamenti mobili.
of three African countries --
di tre paesi africani,
three-word addresses,
all'indirizzo di tre parole,
to explain where they live, today.
per spiegare dove vive.
was an annoying frustration,
erano solo un ostacolo fastidioso;
their infrastructure growth,
della loro infrastruttura
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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