2015-11-30 12:59 GMT+01:00 Colin Smale <[email protected]>: > In some tribal village in Africa for example where an address might not > get any better than "3rd mud hut on the left after the group of 3 trees" > the idea of giving all the dwellings a simple address might open the world > of e-commerce up to them. They will have an address to use, and Amazon's > drones will be able to find them. Maybe not today, maybe not even tomorrow, > but soon.
I believe the main reason Amazon is not serving them right now is not because they don't have working addressing roled out. Missing an addressing system is just a symptom of many other deficits that prevent e-businesses from making big dollars in tribal villages in Africa. It's not even a pure distribution problem (within the poors countries), there simply isn't much to distribute in most of them: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GDP_%28PPP%29_per_capita#/media/File:Countries_by_GDP_%28PPP%29_Per_Capita_in_2014.svg Cheers, Martin
_______________________________________________ talk mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
