Mongolia changing all addresses to 3-word phrases
Mongolia is changing all its addresses to three-word phrases.
Mongolia is changing all its addresses to three-word phrases. Mongolia will become a global pioneer next month, when its national post office starts referring to locations by a series of three-word phrases instead of house numbers and street names. Mongol Post is switching to the What3Words system because there are too few named streets in its territory. When people don’t have a street address, the current solution is for them to travel to a collection point to pick up their post. In practice this means it will pay What3Words to license a bit of software that converts three-word addresses into GPS coordinates. When a piece of mail with a three-word address enters the postal system, it’ll be converted into GPS coordinates for delivery. The new system is adequate for Mongolia, the world’s most sparsely populated countries. Users can look up these three-word locations, which have been translated into Mongolian, for free on the What3Words website or app.
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