What is the right addressing scheme for India?

TL;DR

This paper investigates suitable addressing schemes for India, focusing on improving geolocation accuracy to enhance emergency response and logistics efficiency by analyzing use cases and potential technologies.

Contribution

It proposes evaluating different addressing schemes tailored for India to identify the most effective solutions for widespread adoption.

Findings

Landmark-based addresses are prevalent but hinder precise geolocation.

Technologies like digital mapping and GPS can improve address accuracy.

Adoption of standardized schemes can significantly benefit emergency and logistics services.

Abstract

Computer generated addresses are coming to your neighborhood because most places in the world do not have an assigned meaningful street address. In India, 80% of the addresses are written with respect to a landmark which typically lies between 50-1500 meters of the actual address; such addresses make geolocating very challenging. Accuracy in geolocation is critical for emergency services to navigate quickly to reach you and for logistics industries to improve on-time performance and efficient routing of the package coming to your house. In this paper, we explore suggested addressing schemes for India, to determine what use cases and potential technologies will have the best adoption and therefore, greatest impact.