A global postal coding system.
I’ve barely been at my home computer during the past couple of months as I work towards the conclusion of a project for a multinational company that has now occupied me for over a year.
Writing good software at this scale requires much effort, and sometimes the complexities almost become frustrations; modelling logistics and delivery in countries without postal codes is one such complexity.
And although I haven’t been at a computer, it hasn’t stopped me filling my notebooks with ideas that would resolve some of my frustrations. Like this, a system for coding small regions of the globe with a focus on human communicability: readily identified, unambiguous, 6 or 8 character codes which include a checksum that can catch the majority of basic transcription errors.
The fact that it’s based on a single continuous space-filling curve that loops through every region of the earth’s surface is a bonus.
