Chris Sheldrick: A precise, three-word address for every place on earth
Chris Sheldrick: Um endereço preciso, de três palavras, para cada lugar na 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.
que vivem sem endereço postal.
equipa e eu estamos a tentar mudar isso.
are trying to change that.
and look at a favela in Brazil
e observarem uma favela no Brasil
but a lot of empty space.
mas muitos espaços vazios.
homes and businesses
casas e estabelecimentos
and unaddressed spaces.
mapeados e não têm morada.
rabiscados nas paredes,
scrawled onto the sides of walls,
de moradas que não foram acabados.
but not finished them.
these unaddressed places,
estes lugares sem morada
of addressing stuck with me.
por este tema.
durante 10 anos
business for 10 years,
que o mundo da música
about the music world
de falta de endereços.
with the problems of addressing.
who have to find the gigs
os locais onde vão atuar
who bring the equipment,
to our schedules
quando pensávamos ter chegado ao local,
when you thought you'd arrived
unloaded all the equipment
equipamento foi descarregado do camião
not an hour south of Rome,
e não a uma hora a sul.
called me and said,
o teclista me telefonou e disse:
but we may have just sound-checked
mas talvez tenhamos feito o teste de som
with a friend of mine
we could do something about.
que poderíamos resolver.
we could make a new system,
um novo sistema,
latitude and longitude,
latitude e longitude,
into three-meter squares.
em quadrados com 3 m de lado.
three-meter squares,
de quadrados com 3 m de lado.
combinações suficientes,
enough combinations
square in the world uniquely
a cada quadrado do mundo
40 000 elevado ao cubo.
de três palavras,
the 57-trillion-odd three-meter squares,
57 biliões de quadrados de 3 m de lado
into three-meter squares,
em quadrados de 3 m de lado
three-word identifier --
de três palavras a cada quadrado,
com três palavras.
singularly-tutorial.
"comprimido-singularmente-tutorial".
apenas em inglês.
que as pessoas pudessem usar este sistema
should be able to use this system
em 14 línguas,
like Xhosa, Zulu and Hindi.
como xhosa, zulu e hindi.
to their gigs on time.
a chegar onde vão atuar.
that struggle with reliable addressing
que têm este problema
important applications.
de outras aplicações importantes.
three-word address signs
em trabalho de parto,
when they go into labor,
os serviços de emergência
where to pick them up from,
ir buscar exatamente,
demoram horas a encontrá-las.
have often taken hours to find them.
have adopted the system
adotou este sistema
to many people's houses
entregas ao domicílio
para georreferenciar fotos de desastres,
to geotag photos in disaster zones
ao local exato.
to exactly the right place.
usa este sistema nas Caraíbas,
are using it in the Caribbean,
to find customers' homes,
as casas dos clientes
ainda quente às suas mesas.
their pizza to them while its still hot.
se meterem num carro,
to that exact spot.
das linhas telefónicas
has leapfrogged phone lines
to go straight to mobile payments.
para passarem aos pagamentos móveis.
of three African countries --
de correio de três países africanos,
e a Costa do Marfim,
three-word addresses,
desses países
de explicar onde vivem.
to explain where they live, today.
era uma frustração irritante,
was an annoying frustration,
their infrastructure growth,
de infraestruturas
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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