Thursday 16 November 2017

eLoc – to digitally map the physical property addresses in India.

eLoc-India's National Digital Address System

  • Govt to digitally map all addresses in the countryPilot project in three postal pin code areas in Delhi and Noida
  • Department of Posts to allot a six-character alphanumeric digital address for every property and create eLoc or eLocation
  • Once mapped, addresses to be linked to information like property title and ownership, property tax records, details on utilities like electricity, water and gas
  • eLoc to help travellers and commuters search, share and navigate to a destination's exact doorstep easily and quickly
  • eLoc to help businesses in the e-commerce, transportation, logistics and field operations domains

The Indian Department of Post in association with MapmyIndia has launched a pilot project- eLocations aka eLoc – to digitally map the physical property addresses. The postal department comes under the purview of Ministry of Communication and is looking to evaluate the effectiveness of digital addressing system. With this, the Indian government aims to further evaluate the idea of easing the address location process and then provide possibilities to link them to other information such as property title, property tax records, available utilities, etc.

What Is ELoc?

eLoc by MapmyIndia is the Aadhaar of addresses. eLoc of any place, be it a building/flat/office/business/city/village/locality/road and so on, is a short, 6 character code (for e.g. 8GDTYX, or MMI000), which is easy to remember, share, type and provide.

This six digits alphanumeric code or the digital address for a physical property can be used parallelly to the existing postal address.

These eLocations are based on 3D, digital map database and turn-by-turn navigation solution built by MapmyIndia. Thus, when a person, business or official searches for a place by entering its eLoc, he/she can see the precise map location of that place, get turn-by-turn directions to the exact entrance doorstep of that place, and also see information about that place besides its location, such as reviews, photos and other information provided by the place’s owner, businesses and governments.

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