Chris Sheldrick: A precise, three-word address for every place on earth
Chris Sheldrick: O adresă precisă, din trei cuvinte, pentru fiecare loc de pe pământ
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.
încă trăiesc fără adresă.
are trying to change that.
încercăm să schimbăm asta.
and look at a favela in Brazil
și căutați o favela din Brazilia
but a lot of empty space.
și mult spațiu gol.
homes and businesses
and unaddressed spaces.
necartografiate și fără adresă.
scrawled onto the sides of walls,
mâzgălite pe pereți,
but not finished them.
dar neterminate.
these unaddressed places,
aceste locuri fără adresă,
of addressing stuck with me.
chestiunea adreselor.
business for 10 years,
about the music world
despre lumea muzicală
with the problems of addressing.
cu problema legată de adrese.
who have to find the gigs
să găsească locul concertului,
who bring the equipment,
care aduc echipamentul,
to our schedules
pe cineva pe listă
when you thought you'd arrived
când crezi că ai ajuns
unloaded all the equipment
a descărcat tot echipamentul
not an hour south of Rome,
în loc de o oră la sud de Roma,
called me and said,
but we may have just sound-checked
dar s-ar putea să fi asigurat sunetul
with a friend of mine
we could do something about.
pentru această problemă.
we could make a new system,
latitude and longitude,
latitudinea și longitudinea,
into three-meter squares.
în pătrate de câte trei metri.
three-meter squares,
de pătrate de trei metri,
enough combinations
square in the world uniquely
din lume în mod unic
de trei cuvinte,
the 57-trillion-odd three-meter squares,
57 de trilioane de pătrate de 3 metri,
into three-meter squares,
în pătrate de câte trei metri,
three-word identifier --
din trei cuvinte -
singularly-tutorial.
should be able to use this system
ca oamenii să poată folosi acest sistem
like Xhosa, Zulu and Hindi.
ca xhosa, zulu și hindi.
to their gigs on time.
la spectacol în timp util.
that struggle with reliable addressing
care se luptă pentru adrese fiabile
important applications.
de aplicații mai importante.
three-word address signs
cu adrese de trei cuvinte
when they go into labor,
când intră în travaliu,
where to pick them up from,
have often taken hours to find them.
până le găseau ambulanțele.
have adopted the system
a adoptat sistemul
to many people's houses
to geotag photos in disaster zones
pentru a fotografia zonele cu dezastre
to exactly the right place.
exact unde este necesar.
are using it in the Caribbean,
îl utilizează în Caraibe,
to find customers' homes,
să găsească adresele clienților,
their pizza to them while its still hot.
cât este încă fierbinte.
to that exact spot.
exact în acel loc.
has leapfrogged phone lines
a sărit peste liniile telefonice
to go straight to mobile payments.
trecând direct la plățile mobile.
of three African countries --
din trei țări africane -
three-word addresses,
adresele de trei cuvinte,
to explain where they live, today.
unde locuiesc, astăzi.
was an annoying frustration,
erau o frustrare enervantă,
their infrastructure growth,
dezvoltarea infrastructurii
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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