Google Wants to Impose Order on India's Street Address Chaos
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Google’s wants to help users in India get around -- no mean feat given the country’s often byzantine address system.
The Alphabet Inc.-owned search giant unveiled an open-source project that aims to make sense of the chaos of India’s hyper-growth cities: a shifting warren of hidden alleys, ever-changing landmarks and missing street signs. Called Plus Codes, it’s a location-based digital tagging system that divides the landscape into tiles and assigns a unique code to each, making navigation easier.