  Most of the earth's population has a poorly defined addressing system, thus
having a poorly discoverable residence, property or business locations on a
map. Easily discoverable addresses are important for improving their
livelihood, business-incomes, and even service delivery. The economic cycle
based on discoverable addresses is self-reinforcing: consumers independently
identify and adopt such addresses according to their own convenience and
businesses use algorithms or third-party services to resolve these addresses
into geocodes to help better identify their customers' locations.
  Our paper analyses from the top two industries in India: Logistics and
Financial Services, indicate that the lack of a good addressing system costs
India $10-14B annually. As the Indian economy is expected to grow rapidly, the
businesses would proportionately grow, causing the total costs to grow further.
We, therefore, need to consider a dramatically new approach to modernize the
addressing systems to bring in efficiency.
