Everyone gets tired of the informal, unstructured and most times, no-existent addressing system in the continent. Without relying on government systems, LocName helps people to create their own personal LocName containing their location, and most importantly, put it under a unique name that would act as a postcode and a new address.
LocName aims to solve the issues of areas with no proper addressing system and places that have difficult addresses, like slums, remote villages or newly built cities. Through a mobile application and a website, LocName shortens the details of any location and produce a unique address that can be easily shared and remembered.
The app finds users’ current location and allows the users to assign a name to that location. This LocName will function as that location’s new address. A LocName provides many formats for the new short address varies from a random alphanumeric code i.e [XYZ123] to a personalized name, i.e. Adam@LocName, a short URL Locna.me/Adam and a QR code.
The LocName or short address will include all locations details like GPS coordinates, street address and owner informations. I find this even more convenient as it’s almost impossible to memorise Google Map’s URLs for even very popular addresses and landmarks.
Currently, LocName Focus on Africa and MENA regions. Locname’s advantage over other competitors is providing a personalized address not limited to a random generated code, as I’ve already expressed. It also gives diverse format and wide range of alternatives for shorter address (Personalized Name, Code, URL, as well as QR code).
Accessible on all the platforms like Web, Smartphone, and tablet and not restricted to definite segment. A whole range of products as well as business apps that will helps individuals and organizations (NGOs & business). Finally, it presents itself with a crowdsourcing engine that corrects and validates addresses by users. That’s quite a run for other competitors.
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