25 oct 2011 geocoding symposium washington 0950 richard abas

Geocoding Symposium

WashingtonTues 25 Oct 2011

Looking Beyond the Physical Address

An Examination of How Geocoding 

Can Enhance Postal Addressing

richard abas

3.1081 101.5832+60193354731

razlanabas@gmail.comwww.posttude.com

@razlan

###53281-8958-1832###razlanabas

where?

The Mayflower Renaissance Hotel, Washington, DC1127 Connecticut Avenue NWWashington, DC 200361-202-347-3000 Local1-800-266-9432 Reservation Hotline

where?

The Mayflower Renaissance Hotel, Washington, DC1127 Connecticut Avenue NWWashington, DC 200361-202-347-3000 Local1-800-266-9432 Reservation Hotline

38.9046-77.0402

where?

The Mayflower Renaissance Hotel, Washington, DC1127 Connecticut Avenue NWWashington, DC 200361-202-347-3000 Local1-800-266-9432 Reservation Hotline

38.9046-77.0402

###35602-0995-5397###mayflowerDC

Washington Conference

October 1884International Meridian Conference

http://www.ucolick.org/~sla/leapsecs/scans-meridian.html

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

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 Greenwich as 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.

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.

Purpose?

what is geocoding?

why does it matter?

how can it help postal addressing?

can we create a standard?

posttude, gocode, NAC , ... , ?

what is geocoding?

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 

. ..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

Goldberg 1

why does geocoding matter?

simplify what is where

help get somewhere

make stuff easier

do cool things

size of problem

4 / 6.5 Billion

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

Goldberg 2PERSISTENT 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 

... 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. ...

who needs a universal geocode for postal delivery?

... Why can’t we use postcodes to accomplish the same job? The answer is that everynation has a different postcode structure, so one would have to create a “bridge code” totranscend 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 mailprocessing systems and the lack of a unversal system that keeps addresses correct andup-to-date. A number of nations have non-sequential addressing systems where houseson a street are randomly numbered, not one after another. In some nations, there is agreat distance between residences so a system that transcends these challenges isvitally important. ...

The Global Envelope Report 2010, GEA

who needs a universal geocode for postal delivery?

can we create a standard?

learn from othersinnovation happens at the intersection of disciplines

geocode best practises

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.......

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

FGDC-STD-011-2001

NSDINational Spatial Data InfrastructureUnited States National Grid Standards Working Group Federal Geographic Data Committee                 December, 2001

http://www.fgdc.gov/standards/projects/FGDC-standards-projects/usng/index_html

Discrete Global Grids

c-squarescquayGARSGeohashGeorefMarsden SquareMaidenhead Locator SystemMilitary Grid Reference SystemNatural Area CodeQuarter Degree Grid CellsWorld Meteorological Organisation SquaresUniversal Transverse Mercator

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geocoding

Discrete Global Grids - desirable featuresGoodchild       1994Kimmerling     1999Clarke             2000

http://www.geog.ucsb.edu/~kclarke/Papers/GlobalGrids.html

Goodchild 1994

1.Each area contains one point2.Areas are equal in size3.Areas exhaustively cover the domain4.Areas are equal in shape5.Points form a hierarchy preserving some (undefined) property for m < n points6.Areas form a hierarchy preserving some (undefined) property for m < n areas7.The domain is the globe (sphere, spheroid)8.Edges of areas are straight on some projection9.Areas have the same number of edges10.Areas are compact11.Points are maximally central within areas12.Points are equidistant13.Edges are areas of equal length14.Addresses of points and areas are regular and reflect other properties

http://www.geog.ucsb.edu/~kclarke/Papers/GlobalGrids.html

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

Clarke 2000

1.Universal2.Authoritative3.Succinct4.Definitive5.Exhaustive6.Hierarchical7.Unique8.Intuitive9.Tractable10.Accurate

http://www.geog.ucsb.edu/~kclarke/Papers/GlobalGrids.html

Razlan 2011Criteria for choosing a Geocode { especially for mail delivery}simple

single stringnumericalintuitiveno look upglobaldefinitiveexhaustivenestedprivacy and securityflexible HeightPABXfreeno royaltyopen standard internationally agreed

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

Postcode v Posttude

Postcode●identify post office●lookup required●changes●local

Posttude●identify delivery point●latitude & longitude●permanent●international

C = 5/9*F-32

### 73824-8096-5615

Lat: -37.8056Long: 144.9615

73824= 10,000 + (500 x (90-(-37))) + (180 + 144 )

note: quadrant changes formula

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°.

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

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)

Standard

1884 ... Greenwich

2011? ... ?

UPU

Universal Postal Union191 member countries

Post OfficesPostcodes 121/191Addressing summit 2011recent cases:Saudi ArabiaCosta RicaSouth Africa

.post

Geneva (Switzerland), December 11, 2009ICANN grants UPU .post top-level domainUPU first UN agency to get such a domain; global postal sector to explore new frontiers of electronic postal servicesThe 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

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

Revenue model

Create standard

Free Posttude

Pay for GRL

Just like

URL } DNS } IP address

GRL } PNS } Posttude

Now

Global Envelope Alliance500 Montgomery Street, Suite 550Alexandria, VA 22314(phone) +1 703-739-2200(fax) +1 703-739-2209www.globalenvelopealliance.org

Global Envelope Alliance500 Montgomery Street, Suite 550Alexandria, VA 22314(phone) +1 703-739-2200(fax) +1 703-739-2209www.globalenvelopealliance.org

###gea

Future

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# on mobile devicearea bounded by two lines of latitude and longitudegeotude logo

# # # {minimum 5 digits} 

input any device

thank you

3.1081 101.5832+60193354731

razlanabas@gmail.comwww.posttude.com

@razlan

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