How the Concept of Postal Address is Being Overturned

We are all familiar with the concept of postal address and postal code, at least in developed country. A new way of describing the physical location is on the way: read ‘This Startup Slices the World Into 57 Trillion Squares‘.

The logic behind postal addresses differs substantially between countries, and this was an important factor of complication (Japan having a very different logic from Europe, the UK having a postal code per main building, etc) and less developed countries ares struggling to cope with the speed of urbanisation to implement a postal address system.

And the best with the proposed new system is that each point (actuall each 3m square) is designated by 3 words and not a difficult list of numbers. It is quite interesting to visit their website What3words. You can figure out easily how your location is designated.

Of course the 3 words combinations are not always great, but at least they are quite memorable and practical. A great way to replace postal addresses worldwide!