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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 31/08/16 07:54, Andreas Vilén wrote:<br>
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<div dir="ltr">"frame;lock;door" hmm... or was it
"frame;lock;window"? ---> mail gets delivered to the other
side of the world. If you write "Main street 15" instead of
"Main street 13" it will probably get delivered correctly anyway
as long as the name is correct.
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<div>Also, tell people who are supposed to deliver mail in the
favelas of Brazil to constantly wear a smartphone around their
neck and you will see very few people willing to do that
work...</div>
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<div>Imo it's better to let these areas choose their own
(classic) addresses and then report these to the authorities.</div>
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<div>/Andreas</div>
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It looks like they are trying to do exactly this. Here is a map of a
part of Rio de Janeiro in Brasil: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://osm.org/go/OVcch3Alh">http://osm.org/go/OVcch3Alh</a>- . <br>
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But this approach is not scalable, - even on this map you can see
three <i>Rua C</i>, four <i>Rua A</i> (Rua means Street in
Portuguese). Without a central authority it will end up in numerous
duplicates.<br>
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I heard that in such areas of a city a smartphone is a basic
necessity, because if one leaves home when it is dark outside it is
difficult to find way back as there are no street signs, and one may
realistically get lost till dawn.<br>
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