Posttude, 25 oct 2011 Global Envelope Alliance geocoding symposium washington 0950 richard abas

2. Geocoding Symposium
Washington
Tues 25 Oct 2011

3. Looking Beyond
the Physical Address
An Examination
of How Geocoding
Can Enhance
Postal Addressing

4. richard abas
3.1081 101.5832
+60193354731
razlanabas@gmail.com
www.posttude.com
@razlan
###53281-8958-1832
###razlanabas

5. where?
The Mayflower Renaissance Hotel, Washington, DC
1127 Connecticut Avenue NW
Washington, DC 20036
1-202-347-3000 Local
1-800-266-9432 Reservation Hotline

6. where?
The Mayflower Renaissance Hotel, Washington, DC
1127 Connecticut Avenue NW
Washington, DC 20036
1-202-347-3000 Local
1-800-266-9432 Reservation Hotline
38.9046
-77.0402

7. where?
The Mayflower Renaissance Hotel, Washington, DC
1127 Connecticut Avenue NW
Washington, DC 20036
1-202-347-3000 Local
1-800-266-9432 Reservation Hotline
38.9046
-77.0402
###35602-0995-5397
###mayflowerDC

8. Washington Conference
October 1884
International Meridian Conference
http://www.ucolick.org/~sla/leapsecs/scans-meridian.html

9. http://www.geo.ya.com/valeranet/delegados.htm

10. Resolutions 1 ... 4
The following resolutions were adopted by the conference:
1.That it is the opinion of this Congress that it is desirable to adopt a single prime
meridian for all nations, in place of the multiplicity of initial meridians which now
exist.
2.That the Conference proposes to the Governments here represented the adoption
of the meridian passing through the centre of the transit instrument at the
Observatory of Greenwichas the initial meridian for longitude.
3.That from this meridian longitude shall be counted in two directions up to 180
degrees, east longitude being plus and west longitude minus.
4.That the Conference proposes the adoption of a universal day for all purposes for
which it may be found convenient, and which shall not interfere with the use of local
or standard time where desirable.

11. Resolutions 5 ... 7
1.That this universal day is to be a mean solar day; is to begin for all the world at the
moment of mean midnight of the initial meridian, coinciding with the beginning of
the civil day and date of that meridian; and is to be counted from zero up to twenty-four
hours.
2.That the Conference expresses the hope that as soon as may be practicable the
astronomical and nautical days will be arranged everywhere to begin at midnight.
3.That the Conference expresses the hope that the technical studies designed to
regulate and extend the application of the decimal system to the division of
angular space and of time shall be resumed, so as to permit the extension of
this application to all cases in which it presents real advantages.

13. Purpose?
what is geocoding?
why does it matter?
how can it help postal addressing?
can we create a standard?
posttude, gocode, NAC , ... , ?

14. what is geocoding?

15. googled...
.... Geocoding is the process of resolving geographic
place names, addresses or other data to geographic
coordinates or geocodes,
20036
1-202-
WAS DCA IAD BWI

16. Goldberg 1
. ..The most common data to be geocoded are postal addresses.
In fact, there are very few geocoding services which geocode
anything other than postal address data. The simple reason for
this is that postal address data are among the most prevalent
forms of information [Eichelberger, 1993],...
http://www.urisa.org/goldberg

17. why does geocoding matter?
simplify what is where
help get somewhere
make stuff easier
do cool things

18. size of problem
4 / 6.5 Billion

19. UPU, UN
UPU puts addressing on UN agenda
UPU director general Edouard Dayan .....“Addresses are taken for granted
in industrialised countries, but billions of people in developing countries
don’t have them, ...
“People without addresses cannot easily vote or enjoy a full legal identity, nor can they easily open a bank account or qualify
for credit or loans,” he added.The head of the UN agency for postal services reminded his colleagues that addresses are
important for delivering health and emergency services, developing rural and urban policies, and providing access to basic
public services such as electricity or water.
Dayan continued: “How can you apply for a decent job without a personal address? How can businesses sell and customers
buy online if there is no physical address for delivering the goods? How can people get a passport or an ID?”
The UPU wants to raise awareness of addressing systems and give an
address to everyone in the world. ......
http://www.upu.int/news_centre/2009/en/2009-11-02_adressage_aux_nations-unies.html
2 Nov 2009

20. Goldberg 2
PERSISTENT GEOCODING DIFFICULTIES....
... In developing countries with little GIS data infrastructure, the
main roadblock to accurate geocoding is the simple non-existence of reference datasets or GIS data
infrastructure [Croner, 2003, United Nations Economic Commission, 2005]. The development of
basic GIS reference datasets is hindered by the existence of slum-like areas that change
frequently, contain geographic features that are not street addressable,
and where many areas lack a consistent addressing scheme ...costly
endeavors being undertaken in areas with few economic
resources to dedicate to the task [United Nations Economic Commission,
2005].
http://www.urisa.org/goldberg

23. who needs a universal geocode for
postal delivery?
... Why can’t we use postcodes to accomplish the same job? The answer is that
every nation has a different postcode structure, so one would have to create a
“bridge code” to transcend all these different structures. However, there are some
other reasons, including a great deal of money that each nation has already
invested in their own mail processing systems and the lack of a unversal system
that keeps addresses correct and up-to-date. A number of nations have non-sequential
addressing systems where houses on a street are randomly
numbered, not one after another. In some nations, there is a great distance
between residences so a system that transcends these challenges is vitally
important. ...

24. who needs a universal geocode for
postal delivery?
... Why can’t we use postcodes to accomplish the same job? The answer is that every
nation has a different postcode structure, so one would have to create a “bridge code” to
transcend all these different structures. However, there are some other reasons,
including a great deal of money that each nation has already invested in their own mail
processing systems and the lack of a unversal system that keeps addresses correct and
up-to-date. A number of nations have non-sequential addressing systems where houses
on a street are randomly numbered, not one after another. In some nations, there is a
great distance between residences so a system that transcends these challenges is
vitally important. ...
The Global Envelope Report 2010, GEA

26. can we create a standard?
learn from others
innovation happens at the intersection of disciplines
geocode best practises

27. Standards
●110 km
●90210
●WAS DCA IAD BWI
●Latitude 3.1415 N Longitude 103.3876
●+60 19 3354731
●georger@geotude.com
●@razlan
●178.345.652.789
●www.posttu.de
●###29384 2832 3348
●###12345.......

28. Vinton Cerf
IP= internet protocols
IP on everything
learn from the lessons of building the internet and the web and
apply to the geoweb
IP for location
Geoweb Vancouver 25 July 2007

29. FGDC-STD-011-2001
NSDI
National Spatial Data Infrastructure
United States National Grid
Standards Working Group
Federal Geographic Data Committee
December, 2001
http://www.fgdc.gov/standards/projects/FGDC-standards-projects/usng/index_html

30. Discrete Global Grids
c-squares
cquay
GARS
Geohash
Georef
Marsden Square
Maidenhead Locator System
Military Grid Reference System
Natural Area Code
Quarter Degree Grid Cells
World Meteorological Organisation Squares
Universal Transverse Mercator
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geocoding

31. Discrete Global Grids - desirable
features
Goodchild 1994
Kimmerling 1999
Clarke 2000
http://www.geog.ucsb.edu/~kclarke/Papers/GlobalGrids.html

32. Goodchild 1994
1.Each area contains one point
2.Areas are equal in size
3.Areas exhaustively cover the domain
4.Areas are equal in shape
5.Points form a hierarchy preserving some (undefined) property for m < n points
6.Areas form a hierarchy preserving some (undefined) property for m < n areas
7.The domain is the globe (sphere, spheroid)
8.Edges of areas are straight on some projection
9.Areas have the same number of edges
10.Areas are compact
11.Points are maximally central within areas
12.Points are equidistant
13.Edges are areas of equal length
14.Addresses of points and areas are regular and reflect other properties
http://www.geog.ucsb.edu/~kclarke/Papers/GlobalGrids.html

33. Kimmerling 1999
1.Areal cells constitute a complete tiling of the globe, exhaustively covering the globe without
overlapping. (3,7)
2.Areal cells have equal areas. This minimizes the confounding effects of area variation in analysis,
and provides equal probabilities for sampling designs. (2)
3.Areal cells have the same topology (same number of edges and vertices). (9, 14)
4.Areal cells have the same shape. ideally a regular spherical polygon with edges that are great circles.
(4)
5.Areal cells are compact. (10)
6.Edges of cells are straight in a projection. (8)
7.The midpoint of an arc connecting two adjacent cells coincides with the midpoint of the edge between
the two cells.
8.The points and areal cells of the various resolution grids which constitute the grid system form a
hierarchy which displays a high degree of regularity. (5,6)
9.A single areal cell contains only one grid reference point.(1)
10.Grid reference points are maximally central within areal cells. (11)
11.Grid reference points are equidistant from their neighbors. (12)
12.Grid reference points and areal cells display regularities and other properties which allow them to be
addressed in an efficient manner.
13.The grid system has a simple relationship to latitude and longitude.
14.The grid system contains grids of any arbitrary defined spatial resolution. (5,6)
http://www.geog.ucsb.edu/~kclarke/Papers/GlobalGrids.html

34. Clarke 2000
1.Universal
2.Authoritative
3.Succinct
4.Definitive
5.Exhaustive
6.Hierarchical
7.Unique
8.Intuitive
9.Tractable
10.Accurate
http://www.geog.ucsb.edu/~kclarke/Papers/GlobalGrids.html

35. Razlan 2011
Criteria for choosing a Geocode { especially for mail delivery}
simple
single string
numerical
intuitive
no look up
global
definitive
exhaustive
nested
privacy and security
flexible
Height
PABX
free
no royalty
open
standard internationally agreed

37. www.posttude.com
●IP address for location
●Provides a unique 5+4+4 digit geocode for every 10 x 10 m
grid on earth1
●6.48 x 1012
●Extendable infinitely
●Open Source and free
●Mathematical algorithm not requiring lookup
●hierarchical
1. more precisely, a discrete global grid with equal angle graticules at 4 decimals of latitude and longitude

38. Postcode v Posttude
Postcode
●identify post office
●lookup required
●changes
●local
Posttude
●identify delivery point
●latitude & longitude
●permanent
●international

45. C = 5/9*F-32
### 73824-8096-5615
Lat: -37.8056
Long: 144.9615
73824= 10,000 + (500 x (90-(-37))) + (180 + 144 )
note: quadrant changes formula

46. The smallest numbered Geotude is 10000 at lat=-90°, lng=-180°. Geotude number
are incremented by 1, when we move from left (West) to right (East). Geotude
number are incremented by 500, when we move from top (North) to bottom
(South). Hence, the largest numbered Geotude is 99859 at lat=+89°, lng=+179°.

50. Geotude
●Provisional application for patent : May 2006 (Australia)
●Patent Corporation Treaty (PCT) application: April 2007
(Kuala Lumpur)
●PCT provisional approval in August 2007
●Open sourced 2008

51. R & D
Red Herring Asia 200 (2006,2008,2009)
Where 2.0 in San Jose, CA (2006, 2007, 2008, 2009,2010)
Google Geo Developers Day (2006, 2007)
WhereCamp, Sunnyvale, CA (2007)
Web 2.0, San Francisco, CA (2007)
WhereCamp, Mountain View, CA (2008)
National Postal Forum, Anaheim, CA (2008)
WhereCamp, Palo Alto, CA (2009)
Web 2.0 Summit, SF (2009)
CES, Las Vegas, NV (2010)
Post Expo, Copenhagen , Denmark (2010)
Address Summit , UPU, Bern, Switzerland (2010)
GEA Geocode Symposium (2011)

53. Standard
1884 ... Greenwich
2011? ... ?

54. UPU
Universal Postal Union
191 member countries
Post Offices
Postcodes 121/191
Addressing summit 2011
recent cases:
Saudi Arabia
Costa Rica
South Africa

55. .post
Geneva (Switzerland), December 11, 2009
ICANN grants UPU .post top-level domain
UPU first UN agency to get such a domain; global postal sector to explore new frontiers of
electronic postal services
The Universal Postal Union (UPU) and the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and
Numbers (ICANN) today signed the contract that grants the UPU managing authority over
the top-level domain name, .post (dot.post).
The UPU is the first United Nations agency to obtain a piece of real-estate space on the
Internet for the global industry it represents. ICANN President Rod Beckstrom and UPU
Director General Edouard Dayan signed the contract at the United Nations Office in
Geneva, Switzerland.
http://www.upu.int/press/en/2009/2009_12_11_dotpost_en.pdf

56. Potential
### standard
an address for everyone
an address for anything
redefine where
web 2.0 address book
space time visualization
the science behind the social network

57. Revenue model
Create standard
Free Posttude
Pay for GRL

58. Just like
URL } DNS } IP address
GRL } PNS } Posttude

59. Now
Global Envelope Alliance
500 Montgomery Street, Suite 550
Alexandria, VA 22314
(phone) +1 703-739-2200
(fax) +1 703-739-2209
www.globalenvelopealliance.org

60. Future
Global Envelope Alliance
500 Montgomery Street, Suite 550
Alexandria, VA 22314
(phone) +1 703-739-2200
(fax) +1 703-739-2209
www.globalenvelopealliance.org
###gea

61. # # #
# on mobile device
area bounded by two lines of latitude and longitude
geotude logo
# # # {minimum 5 digits}
input any device

63. thank you
3.1081 101.5832
+60193354731
razlanabas@gmail.com
www.posttude.com
@razlan
### 53281-8958-1832
### rabas