Google Maps creates custom addresses for places that don’t have an address

Have you ever found yourself far from civilization? Service implemented by Google Maps Uses Open Location Codes and especially for people in remote places where it is sometimes necessary to travel several kilometers before finding a referenced street name in the Google maps app.

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The Mountain View company launched Open Location Codes, or “Plus Codes,” last April. destined for helping people in distant places where directions were more visual and topographical clues than tangible information, the other challenge was to provide easy-to-enter coordinates that were less cumbersome than GPS coordinates.

Engineers began to create some kind of very precise postal codes. Open Source database, Open Location Code. Derived from ancestral latitudes and longitudes, these codes represent a string of numbers and symbols no longer than a phone number and can be reduced to just 4 or 6 characters when you add a location name to improve searching.

Postcodes differ little between neighboring regions. The character order was designed to fit universally, thus avoiding the adaptation of words in about 30 different languages. Everything has been thought of to optimize this location system as much as possible.

So, deliveries, meeting points, as well as apps that offer geolocation but are not based on city addresses (water points, mountain shelters, etc.) will find valuable help with these Plus Codes, even more if you follow our tutorial to optimize your GPS.

Plus Codes on Google Maps

If there was still no integration of Open Location Code into Google Maps in May, it is now taken care of. These new generation postal codes Searchable on Google and the map service Maps.

Plus Codes can also be useful when friends call you on a beach or in the middle of heavily populated areas. Google also takes the example of Kathmandu with a population of 1 million and Or streets have no names.

By entering the code 7MV7P8R9+W2, you will reside in Kathmandu and if you or your addressee are already in Kathmandu and calling you, you only need to provide P8R9+W2. Open Location Codes integrated into Google Maps, professional, human,…

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