[OSM-talk] What3words

[Martin Koppenhoefer]

2015-11-30 12:59 GMT+01:00 Colin Smale <colin.smale at xs4all.nl>:

> In some tribal village in Africa for example where an address might not
> get any better than "3rd mud hut on the left after the group of 3 trees"
> the idea of giving all the dwellings a simple address might open the world
> of e-commerce up to them. They will have an address to use, and Amazon's
> drones will be able to find them. Maybe not today, maybe not even tomorrow,
> but soon.



I believe the main reason Amazon is not serving them right now is not
because they don't have working addressing roled out. Missing an addressing
system is just a symptom of many other deficits that prevent e-businesses
from making big dollars in tribal villages in Africa. It's not even a pure
distribution problem (within the poors countries), there simply isn't much
to distribute in most of them:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GDP_%28PPP%29_per_capita#/media/File:Countries_by_GDP_%28PPP%29_Per_Capita_in_2014.svg

Cheers,
Martin
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