A lot of countries in Africa do not have addressing systems and there is a push to have them adopt these granular forms of addressing for e-commerce and government service delivery. But existing addressing systems are structured to precisely link occupants to specific identity. I am reading more on this and would appreciate any leads.
What3words has given every 3m square in the world a unique 3 word address. It’s a really cool idea as the address can be memorized fairly easily.
The only problem is that it was created and is maintained by a for-profit company and is not an open standard.
https://what3words.com/daring.lion.race
Pretty interesting It also seems that if the words are not changing, it can be easily converted to a fixed GPS location (one hop away from the real GPS address).