Scratch to Search-The life lines of Address

My house address in Hyderabad is about 6 lines. Finding the location without a google map is a little difficult and most Indian cities are unplanned and often grow ad-hoc based on need and demand rather than planning.

I wasn't even sure how we managed to find an address in India before google maps arrived and we adapted to 𝘮𝘶𝘭𝘵𝘪𝘱𝘭𝘦 𝘸𝘢𝘺𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘳𝘰𝘶𝘨𝘩 𝘭𝘢𝘯𝘥𝘮𝘢𝘳𝘬𝘴, 𝘴𝘵𝘳𝘦𝘦𝘵 𝘯𝘶𝘮𝘣𝘦𝘳𝘴, 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘰𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘳 𝘦𝘢𝘴𝘪𝘭𝘺 𝘪𝘥𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘪𝘧𝘪𝘢𝘣𝘭𝘦 𝘰𝘣𝘫𝘦𝘤𝘵𝘴 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘤𝘭𝘶𝘦𝘴. 𝘞𝘪𝘵𝘩𝘰𝘶𝘵 𝘴𝘶𝘤𝘩 𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘵𝘴, 𝘧𝘪𝘯𝘥𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘢 𝘩𝘰𝘶𝘴𝘦 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩 𝘫𝘶𝘴𝘵 𝘢 𝘱𝘰𝘴𝘵𝘢𝘭 𝘢𝘥𝘥𝘳𝘦𝘴𝘴 𝘪𝘴 𝘲𝘶𝘪𝘵𝘦 𝘢 𝘵𝘰𝘶𝘨𝘩 𝘵𝘢𝘴𝘬 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘢𝘯𝘺𝘰𝘯𝘦 𝘯𝘦𝘸 𝘵𝘰 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘤𝘪𝘵𝘪𝘦𝘴 and towns. The lack of basis of urban planning in practice, such efforts worsen the search, and any effort leads to confusion and poor street lane numbers have messed up the lanes affair from the old address and new addresses.

I thought this is an attribute for large countries, but when I saw the addresses in Costa Rica it was quite surprising and interesting as we learn the need to literally describe the house in the address format

Address Format Costa Rica
Costa Rican Addresses
Line 1: Name. Señor John Smith.
Line 2: Description of house location. De la Iglesia de San Marco 50 metros al oeste y 100 al norte, casa color gris.
Line 3: Province, Canton, District. San José, Escazú, San Rafael.
Line 4: Postcode - Country. 10203 - Costa Rica.

Still, with so much chaos still exists. India Post knows every other address in the country and no one can access India like them and probably one of the best in the world as well. The status quo of the address was finally shaken by a few companies and Waht3Words being my fav of them;

𝘡𝘪𝘱𝘱𝘳 - Zippr is a new address format that solves the problem of explaining complex addresses in emerging markets through a short code

𝘋𝘦𝘭𝘩𝘪𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘺 - India logistics company has been awarded a US Patent for its proprietary unique address identification (UAID) system.

𝘞𝘩𝘢𝘵3𝘸𝘰𝘳𝘥𝘴 -A London based company developed a proprietary geocode system designed to uniquely identify with any 3-meter square of the world and has been given a unique combination of three words.

𝘛𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘦 𝘪𝘴 𝘯𝘰 𝘱𝘳𝘰𝘣𝘭𝘦𝘮 𝘪𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘸𝘰𝘳𝘭𝘥 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘤𝘢𝘯'𝘵 𝘣𝘦 𝘴𝘰𝘭𝘷𝘦𝘥, 𝘪𝘵'𝘴 𝘫𝘶𝘴𝘵 𝘢 𝘮𝘢𝘵𝘵𝘦𝘳 𝘰𝘧 𝘵𝘪𝘮𝘦 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘴𝘰𝘮𝘦 𝘴𝘮𝘢𝘳𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘬𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘵𝘰 𝘳𝘦𝘴𝘰𝘭𝘷𝘦 𝘪𝘵.

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