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New Postcode System incorporatingLatitude and Longitude

Universal Postal Union (UPU), United Nation (UN)

UPU director general Edouard Dayan urged United Nations organisations and agencies on Friday to join a UPU campaign to develop efficient addressing systems worldwide. Attending the United Nations Chief Executives Board meeting in New York, Dayan told secretary-general Ban Ki-moon and colleagues that addresses are a critical tool for economic and social development and an essential part of a country’s national infrastructure.“Addresses are taken for granted in industrialised countries, but billions of people in developing countries don’t have them, preventing citizens from being full members of the community,” Dayan said.

“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. Plans include the creation of a multi-agency working group and holding a global summit on addressing in 2011.

Many postal-sector stakeholders are enthusiastic about the initiative. The United Nations Development Programme, the World Bank, UNESCO, the International Telecommunications Union and UN-Habitat have also indicated their desire to join the campaign.

http://www.upu.int/news_centre/2009/en/2009-11-02_adressage_aux_nations-unies.html

2 Nov 2009

UPU puts addressing on UN agenda

The UPU wants to raise awareness of addressing systems and give an address to everyone in the world. Plans include the creation of a multi-agency working group and holding a global summit on addressing in 2011.

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Posttude

Posttude = Postcode + Geotudewww.posttude.comwww.ziptude.comPosttude is a Geotude application5+4+4 digit represent approx 11m x 11m grid on earth

Geotude = a discrete global grid incorporating latitude and longitude, a geohash , a geocode

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56°N

12°E

55°N

13°E

27192

111 km

63.8 km 7,019 km2

55.64°N

12.58°E

55.63°N

12.59°E

27192-3658

1.11 km

0.638 km 0.700 km2

27192-3658-1415

11.1 m

6.28 m 69.9 m2

55.6386°N

55.6385°N

12.5815°E 12.5916°E

Postcode vs Posttude

Postcode

•identify post office•lookup required•changes•local•1950s

Posttude

•identify delivery point•latitude and longitude•permanent•international•2010

Observations

• developed vs developing countries• postcodes local• look up • elevation• PABX• ###• PNS• standards• DMS alternative• numerical, alphabet, language

Standards

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UPU

Geotude IP• Unique Intellectual property

• Provisional application for patent : May 2006 (Australia)

• Patent Corporation Treaty (PCT) application: April 2007 (Kuala Lumpur)

• http://www.wipo.int/pctdb/en/wo.jsp?wo=2007142507

• Granted PCT application in August 2007

• Open sourced 2008

Posttude

• Post Expo Booth (1170)

• Countries need Postcode system

• Countries reviewing existing postcode

• UPU addressing system

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