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a mile away from the street address assigned to your local park well guess what Google has the solution for you a better alternative to traditional street addresses they're called Plus codes and you may have actually seen them already in Google Maps as strange little codes with a Five Dot logo a short combination of letters and numbers and then the name of a geographic location like a town the idea behind Plus codes is that they are a quick way to identify a specific location within just a few meters anywhere on the planet that makes them not only a more accurate supplement to existing street addresses but potentially even an outright replacement in certain situations let's say for example you're a tourist in a country that uses an address system that you're not familiar with think about how Japanese cities arrange addresses into blocks rather than streets or how some Latin American countries just nickname buildings or use distances from landmarks to denote a specific house well Plus codes can be looked up for spots like these simply by dropping a pin using the Google Maps app this provides visitors with an absolute spot to navigate to rather than the orange building 20 ft north of the big tree it also helps with remote locations that simply don't have addresses which is not only confusing for visitors but can be downright life-threatening for anyone in an underserved area that needs emergency assistance now I can practically hear you guys shouting we've had this for thousands of years and all right mellin you're kind of right traditional latitude and longitude coordinates can serve as a kind of universal address but you'd be writing out a pretty long string of digits in order to differentiate say your house from your neighbor's house a few feet away so the re real key for Plus codes is that they're shorter even though they're actually derived from traditional latitude and longitude here's how it works the system divides the world into blocks of 20° latitude by 20° longitude then it divides those blocks up multiple times over keeping a 20x 20 grid each time eventually getting down to a block that is only 3 and 1/2 M wide on average small enough to indicate something like an individual business in a strip mall an algorithm translates this block into a code of 11 characters which can be further shortened by loing off the first few characters and then appending a location to it such as 37 XV plus CF sir BC which happens to be the studio that I'm standing in right now that is a heck of a lot easier than using these coordinates if you're trying to find us which of course you aren't because we don't do impromptu tours it's a pretty cool system but are people actually using it it turns out the answer is yes and will tell you about some cool ways it's being implemented right after we than super micro get ready for the next level of server performance with super micro h14 generation servers we recently visited their headquarters and filmed a series of videos all about the h14 family which is packed with amazing features like how they're powered by AMD's epic 905 processors that's right we're talking up to 192 cores and 384 threads on a single chip plus they also support AMD Instinct Mi 325x gpus for some serious performance and with super micro's building block architecture you can customize everything from expansion to storage all the well supporting AMD zen4 and Zen 5 processors we're going to have more info on super micr h114 servers at the link in the video description Plus codes are being used in some of the world's most heavily urbanized areas where people are living in more informal settings such as favellas and tent cities where it's difficult for residents to receive deliveries access government services or even sign up for bank accounts that's what it was like for 1 and2 million people in Kolkata India where a nonprofit called addressing the unaddressed works with the local authorities to have Plus codes placed on dwellings kind of similar to house numbers in North America Plus codes have also been used on Rural Native American lands in the US where some homes do not have traditional addresses in these cases for things like voter registration ambulance services mail delivery and even just for social calls but even if you're not trying to save the world as part of a nonprofit it can still be useful Google Maps makes it easy to copy and paste Plus codes just as you would a regular address both for locations the app already labels as well as when you randomly just drop a pin somewhere meaning you can copy a plus code and send it to your Uber or door Dash driver and have them pasted into Google Maps and show up right at your door and while we've talked a lot about Google Maps since that's what many of you are probably using the coolest part is you can also use Plus codes on mapping apps like organic maps and Osmand since the algorithm used by Plus codes is open source just don't expect these codes to straight up replace traditional addresses anytime soon I wouldn't recommend scribbling a plus code on the next package you ship via FedEx thanks for watching guys if you liked this video check out our other video on why Google Maps uses a globe now instead of a flat map"}