Google continues to push its services to their maximum so that they can satisfy the greatest number of users.
No longer need to share your exact address, Google Maps now offers a new feature. In fact, the application generates a unique code with six digits to share with several people so you can meet at the same rendezvous point. Google has called this the ” More Code “, this last one is available when you tap on the icon representing your position.
Before you retain the anonymity of an address, Google had especially thought of the country in which the street names are still too rare. The firm of Mountain View says that it is sometimes become too complicated for the emergency services to intervene in some areas because of the lack of landmarks. But also for deliveries of mail and parcels. According to the company, more than 2 billion people in the world have no address or have one that is not easy to find. Which is huge on a little more than $ 7.5 billion of earthlings.
The More Code looks like this : HR8P+84 London. In this case, it is an address located in the middle of Hampstead Heath, a park in the north of London. Of course, there will be no in all cases a city such as London close by, in the most remote places this will be the name of the region that will appear on the site. Last year, a journalist from the BBC has written an article in which he explains how he wanted to open a bank account in the Gambia. One can read that he was asked to enter an exact address to get there, or he stayed in a home without a street name. It would have been probably relieved to be able to use the function More Code.
Here’s how to Sundar Pichai, the CEO of Google explains the benefits of this feature : ” With a digital address, more people will have access to banking services and emergency, receiving mail and deliveries, and help people find and manage their businesses. It is still early, but we are excited by the potential.”
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