Why can’t we tell location properly even if we use Taxi app?
Smarter way to ride taxi in the booming mobility industry.
Why is it so hard to take a taxi? Read the following reviews to find the answer.
1. I can’t find or explain my starting / arrival address.
2. The GPS error range is too big
3. My fingers are so thick that I can’t check my starting pinpoint
4. I can’t explain my location to call a taxi.
5. Only one address in a building or a large area
Did you find the answer? Yes. All are correct. Recently, sharing mobility has been activated and there are too many ways to get to your destination without having to take a taxi. In this reality, the taxi industry has just created a taxi-only app and can not find a big change in the taxi service. Why?
Let’s take an example using the Line Taxi service.
I want to take a taxi with Line Taxi near my company.
What about Uber?
I try to call a taxi by running several applications, but still difficult to catch a taxi. My origin location pin on the taxi app map keeps changing because I’ve moved around while calling.
Finally I caught a taxi..
But you’ve probably had this conversation with a taxi driver.
This happens frequently every time you call a taxi. The same applies to Kakao Taxi, T Map Taxi, Uber, Grab and Line Taxi. I obviously sent my location to the pin on the map, but the driver and passenger had to ask and check location again after seeing the pin.
The problem is not a taxi app,taxi driver or passenger.
The problem is due to the ‘The thing’ we are using right now, which is hard to explain my location.
‘The thing’ is the existing address.
‘Address’ is the cause of the problem.
To say the location is too difficult. I would tell my location by the street name address, street address, surrounding buildings, even statues and trees. The Grab Taxi app even takes pictures of my location with Grab chat and sends it to the driver.
However,
the addressing system we’re using now doesn’t allow you to precisely mark or communicate with your location.
In Grab chat, passengers and drivers often talk to each other to ask where they are.
Likewise, we call the taxi wisely through the taxi app, but we don’t know how to communicate location wisely. This is because the address has these problems.
1. All the addresses have different areas.
We can’t find the precise location with existing address.
(A part of area in Taipei, can you find the location if you tell by this address? As shown in the image below, the red zone area is all one address.)
2. Only one address is shown.
No matter how tall the building is, there is only one address. Also, only one address will be shown in the center of the building or at the main entrance. This means every entrance to a building cannot be addressed.
With these existing address systems, Taxi and Passengers cannot communicate precise location each other easily and properly.
That’s why you can’t tell where your location is, no matter how the “pin” and “address” are exposed in the taxi app.
These problems can be solved if we can tell the address easily and precisely.
Here is the easiest way to say, show, communicate and direct connecting location,
‘GridAddress’
GridAddress developed by ‘Infoseed’ is the world’s first ‘1M precision address system’ that divides the whole world into 1m grid and gives every grid different GridAddress.
Now here is the way how easy and precise it is to call a taxi using ‘GridAddress’ so that the driver and passenger can communicate their location.
It’s very simple. Just say GridAddress
To tell your location, find a building, take a picture, right to left…. No longer need do this. Just say GridAddress
<Existing Taxi App using Case>
1) Run ‘App’ (Uber example)
The address of the current location where the vehicle was called is marked.
Addresses alone make it difficult to determine your location.
Then let’s search the area of the address shown in the app.
How big is the address of ‘Teheran-ro 52-gil, Yeoksam-dong, Gangnam-gu, Seoul’?
The whole red area in the image above is the area of one address.
All these large areas are the same address, that’s why it’s too hard to share the precise location to the taxi driver. What if GridAddress is applied to the call-taxi app?
<Taxi App GridAddress worked example>
The Taxi app will show ‘Pin’, ‘Road Name Address’ and ‘GridAddress’.
In this case, I changed the GridAddress to ‘Taxi Address’.
- The GridAddress is shown each different address of 1Mx1M size in the Taxi app, so you can communicate the location easily and precisely through the GridAddress no matter how big the address area.
2. Change in conversation between Taxi and Passenger
<Navigation guidance in taxi app of GridAddress>
3. In addition, one of Infoseed’s service, “Photo QR,” makes it easier to send locations.
Taking a picture and sending it can solve the problem of Grab chat, which required you to ask for it again.
Just take a picture like the image below, and the GridAddress and QRcode of the location where the picture was taken will be combined with the picture and sent together.
4. You can create own address ‘my home’ / ‘company’ address the words you want.
The GridAddress on the AI voice speaker allows you to say voice commands easily and precisely.
<Example of Calling a taxi with an AI voice speaker>
There are many apps, such as car sharing app and call-taxi app, but still difficult to communicate location.
With the advancing of society, hyper-connected society, 5G, and self-driving car, it will be increasingly important for people to communicate precise location.
GridAddress is solving the problems of the existing address system and innovating the way of displaying, communicating, searching and tracking the location of the future society.
Contact us : cssim@infoseed.kr
