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"50% of people in developing countries live in places where there are no maps, addresses or street names, UBI gives them an immediate alternative for their need
by al2o3cr 12y ago
"50% of people in developing countries live in places where there are no maps, addresses or street names, UBI gives them an immediate alternative for their needs."
Because everybody's got a device that has GPS and can decode these opaque strings, right? /facepalm
- axiak 12y agoMore people in India have a cell phone than have access to a toilet.
- lightblade 12y agoTrue, but does those feature phones have GPS?
- petrosh 12y agono need, once adopted we'll change all the signs on every street and every building.
- u124556 12y agoAnd because if it isn't on Google maps it doesn't exist, right?
- Alupis 12y agoGPS coordinates work regardless if there is an image on the Google map... a coordinate is a coordinate (which is why the military, aviation industry, maritime industry, agricultural industry, etc... all use coordinates instead of some silly system like this phonetical one.)
- R_Edward 12y agoPlus, do those 50% of the people tend to get lost going from place to place in their daily lives? And do members of the other 50% have a need to be able to precisely locate any of those people without maps, addresses, or street names? I humbly submit that this is a very nice solution in desperate and ultimately fruitless search for a problem.