[HOT] Addresses in Africa

[john whelan]

​"bottle area codes"

I like the idea but I prefer the idea of the locals being involved in
whatever solution does evolve and I suspect coca cola's prime reason for
developing them is not to identify an individual building.  Amazon would be
interested if there was money involved.  A bit like net neutrality I think
postcode would be more neutral.

There is also another side to this and that is the use of postcodes.  Both
the UK and Canada post offices sell the information.  Do we really want to
give Coca-cola an other source of revenue?

Cheerio John​


On 31 August 2016 at 08:06, Iván Sánchez Ortega <ivan at sanchezortega.es>
wrote:

> El onsdag 31. august 2016 07.37.18 CEST john whelan escribió:
> > ​There has been considerable talk about addressing schemes for areas that
> > do not have street names etc.  Three words etc.
>
> Count me amog those involved in those kind of conversations.
>
>
> > In many parts of the western we use things called postcodes, certainly in
> > Canada and the UK.
> [...]
> > For those areas that have had buildings mapped the local “Post Office”
> could
> > be involved in assigning house numbers.
>
> I'm going to just voice out an idea. Maybe it's a stupid idea, maybe not.
>
> I'll argue that postal systems do not work well in areas without postal
> addresses (d'oh), and that post offices outright don't exist in areas where
> analphabetism is rampant.
>
> I'll further argue that there is a logistics network that does serve all
> those
> areas, and with a much higher fequency: distribution of bottled drinks.
>
> I digged around in my memory and could find a reference to http://
> www.colalife.org/2010/12/19/how-coca-colas-distribution-system-works/
>
>
> So I'd say that maybe, just maybe, some kind of ad-hoc "bottle area codes"
> do
> exist, and that they might have minimal overlapping already, and that the
> distributors already have an ad-hoc hierarchy of addressable areas,
> matching
> their logistics model.
>
>
> If anyone is going to tap into post codes expertise, I humbly suggest to
> consider logistics chains other than post. IMHO post doesn't get anywhere,
> but
> soft drinks and beer does.
>
>
> Cheers,
> --
> Iván Sánchez Ortega <ivan at sanchezortega.es> <ivan at geonerd.org>
> <ivan at mazemap.no>
>
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