Chris Sheldrick: A precise, three-word address for every place on earth
クリス・シェルドリック: 3ワードアドレスで地球上のあらゆる場所に正確な住所表示を
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.
住所のないところに住んでいます
are trying to change that.
私とチームの取り組みをお話しします
and look at a favela in Brazil
ブラジルの貧民街や
黒人居住区を見ると
but a lot of empty space.
たくさんの空きスペースがあります
homes and businesses
and unaddressed spaces.
住所のない空白の中にあります
scrawled onto the sides of walls,
書きなぐってあり
but not finished them.
完成していないのがわかります
these unaddressed places,
of addressing stuck with me.
理由を申し上げます
business for 10 years,
about the music world
音楽の世界では
with the problems of addressing.
who have to find the gigs
ミュージシャンから
who bring the equipment,
プロダクション会社まで
to our schedules
when you thought you'd arrived
相手に電話をしたのに
なんてことまであるんです
unloaded all the equipment
全部の機材を積み下したものの
not an hour south of Rome,
北に1時間の場所だったり
called me and said,
電話でこう言いました
but we may have just sound-checked
いま音合わせを終えたんだけど
間もなく
with a friend of mine
we could do something about.
できるかもと考えたんです
we could make a new system,
新しいシステムを作ることはできそうだけど
いけないということでした
という考えで一致していました
latitude and longitude,
緯度と経度の表示だと
into three-meter squares.
3m四方の正方形に分割しました
three-meter squares,
57兆個に分割して
enough combinations
square in the world uniquely
つけられると分かりました
64兆通りなので
the 57-trillion-odd three-meter squares,
別々の名前をつけても
into three-meter squares,
3m四方の正方形に分割し
three-word identifier --
固有の識別子を与えました
(3ワードアドレス)」です
「マスタード/クーポン/ピンナップ」です
singularly-tutorial.
「ピンチト/シンギュラリ/テュートリアル」
should be able to use this system
このシステムを自国語で
14の言語で組み立てました
スワヒリ語、アラビア語が含まれ
like Xhosa, Zulu and Hindi.
コサ語、ズールー語、ヒンドゥー語です
雇ったミュージシャンたちを
to their gigs on time.
だけではありません
that struggle with reliable addressing
困っている国の75%が
important applications.
応用できるようになります
three-word address signs
11,000個の3ワードアドレスを
when they go into labor,
where to pick them up from,
伝えられるようにしました
have often taken hours to find them.
よく何時間もかかるからです
have adopted the system
このシステムを採用し
to many people's houses
配達が行われていますが
to geotag photos in disaster zones
被災地での写真にジオタグをつけています
to exactly the right place.
支援を届けることができるからです
are using it in the Caribbean,
カリブ海地域で使っています
to find customers' homes,
顧客の家が見つかりにくく
their pizza to them while its still hot.
真剣に考えたからです
to that exact spot.
案内してくれるようになるでしょう
has leapfrogged phone lines
固定電話を飛び越えて
to go straight to mobile payments.
直接モバイルで支払う方法になりました
of three African countries --
アフリカの3か国—
コートジボワールの郵便事業が
three-word addresses,
早速 導入したので
to explain where they live, today.
すごく簡単に言うことができます
was an annoying frustration,
悩ましくもストレスのかかることでした
著しく低下させる要因であり
their infrastructure growth,
大きな足枷となり
変える任務を負って
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.
Chris Sheldrick | Speaker | TED.com