When I was in Bangladesh there was a similar problem: 'how to tell other people where i live'. Some people in one of the bigger slums in Dhaka said it would already be a big step to just have proper streetnames and then work from there...
Met vriendelijke groeten, Best regards, Ben Abelshausen On Wed, Sep 4, 2013 at 10:57 AM, bimal maharjan <hakubi...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi All, > > I think my last email was not clear. > > I am from Nepal and we do not have standard address system (let alone > online) .I want to know how this problem can be solved and how the same > problem has been solved in other developing countries. Perhaps some must be > working for it. > > I am researching to find out about the organizations or professionals or > start ups who are working to solve the problem of "no standard and > accessible address system" in the developing countries. > > While trying to find out who is trying to solve this problem, I found the > organization named *Universal Post Union*, which is working on an > initiative "*"Adressing the world, an address for > everyone"<http://www.upu.int/fileadmin/documentsFiles/activities/addressingAssistance/paperAddressingAddressingTheWorldAnAddressForEveryoneEn.pdf> > * . > > I was wondering somebody from the openstreetmap community must be involved > or know about the ways to solve the problem. If somebody knows and have > innovative solutions for this then please share. > > Cheers! > Bimal > > > On Tue, Sep 3, 2013 at 6:34 PM, bimal maharjan <hakubi...@gmail.com>wrote: > >> Hi All, >> >> The developing countries have the address problem. >> >> I read about the initiative called "address for everyone". Below is the >> link. >> >> http://www.upu.int/fileadmin/documentsFiles/activities/addressingAssistance/paperAddressingAddressingTheWorldAnAddressForEveryoneEn.pdf >> >> I want to know whether there are any professionals or start ups or >> development agencies working to solve this problem. >> >> >> -- >> Cheers! >> Bimal >> > > > > -- > Cheers! > Bimal > > _______________________________________________ > talk mailing list > talk@openstreetmap.org > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk > >
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