Chris Sheldrick: A precise, three-word address for every place on earth
Chris Sheldrick: Een precies adres van drie woorden voor elke plaats op aarde
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.
en ik proberen daar iets aan te doen.
are trying to change that.
and look at a favela in Brazil
naar een favela in Brazilië
but a lot of empty space.
maar heel veel lege ruimte.
homes and businesses
mensen, huizen en zaken
and unaddressed spaces.
en niet geadresseerde gebied.
scrawled onto the sides of walls,
gekribbeld op de muren
but not finished them.
met adressystemen.
these unaddressed places,
deze ongeadresseerde plaatsen
of addressing stuck with me.
belang hecht aan adresseren.
business for 10 years,
about the music world
misschien niet weten,
with the problems of addressing.
ondervinden met adresseren.
who have to find the gigs
de optredens moeten vinden
voor het materiaal moeten zorgen:
who bring the equipment,
die we konden bellen
to our schedules
when you thought you'd arrived
maar dan bleek dat dat niet zo was.
unloaded all the equipment
het materiaal afzette
not an hour south of Rome,
in plaats van bezuiden Rome,
called me and said,
hebben we onze soundcheck
but we may have just sound-checked
with a friend of mine
we could do something about.
een op te lossen probleem was.
we could make a new system,
dat adressen slecht waren.
latitude and longitude,
lengte- en breedtegraden,
into three-meter squares.
in vierkanten van 3 op 3 meter.
three-meter squares,
57 biljoen van die vierkanten.
enough combinations
square in the world uniquely
van 3 op 3 in de wereld
van drie woorden,
the 57-trillion-odd three-meter squares,
driemetervierkanten mee te benoemen,
into three-meter squares,
in driemetervierkanten,
three-word identifier --
identificatie van drie woorden
singularly-tutorial.
niet alleen in het Engels.
should be able to use this system
dat mensen dit systeem
like Xhosa, Zulu and Hindi.
zoals Xhosa, Zulu en Hindi.
to their gigs on time.
naar hun optredens brengen.
that struggle with reliable addressing
met adresseerproblemen
important applications.
belangrijkere toepassingen.
three-word address signs
when they go into labor,
als ze gaan bevallen
waar ze hen moeten ophalen.
where to pick them up from,
have often taken hours to find them.
soms uren naar hen zoeken.
have adopted the system
het systeem aangenomen
to many people's houses
to geotag photos in disaster zones
in rampgebieden te geotaggen,
to exactly the right place.
op de juiste plaats terechtkomt.
are using it in the Caribbean,
gebruikt het in de Caraïben,
to find customers' homes,
van de mensen niet vonden,
their pizza to them while its still hot.
nog warm wilden afleveren.
to that exact spot.
naar de precieze plaats.
has leapfrogged phone lines
de telefoonlijnen overgeslagen
mobiele telefoon te gaan,
to go straight to mobile payments.
voor de mobiele betalingen.
of three African countries --
van drie Afrikaanse landen --
three-word addresses,
hebben aangenomen.
to explain where they live, today.
aangeven waar ze wonen.
was an annoying frustration,
een vervelend iets,
nadeel voor zakendoen,
their infrastructure growth,
van infrastructuur
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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