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October 30th, 2019

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Wednesday, October 30th, 2019 10:48 pm
https://www.sltrib.com/news/2019/10/25/navajo-nation-is-getting/

Rinckes, who said he has always lived in “well-mapped” places, was surprised to learn that in parts of the developing world, whole towns exist without any street names or traditional addresses. He began working through the quandary of how to effectively bring addresses to places without street names, and he started a side project to solve the problem that later turned into his full-time job.

His team eventually developed the Plus Code grid that can locate any point with precision independently of street names. Codes aren’t randomly generated when they’re identified for structures, but are already assigned to the entire surface of the globe.