Ivory Coast has changed to a new system. It is using addresses that contain three words. For the first time ever, in the country will be able to get mail at their house. Up until now, people used post office . Poorer people found it to get mail. The of Ivory Coast's post office told the BBC: "We have 150,000 PO boxes for a of nearly 24 million. That means a postal address is a ….We have to make postal access to everyone." He said the three-word addresses would move Ivory Coast into the age.
The postal system is based on the what3words.com -mapping system. It divided the world into a of 57 trillion 3m x 3m , each with a 3-word address. The software uses latitude and longitude coordinates to pinpoint a . The 22 numbers from these coordinates are changed into three easy to remember . These replace house numbers, street and city names and codes. A what3words.com spokesperson said: "Poor addressing…around the world…hampers the and development of nations, ultimately costing ."
