Contents
Certificate of original authorship i
Certificate of Dissertation Advisor’s consent iii
Acknowledgments v
Abstract vii
List of figures ix
List of tables xiii
1 INTRODUCTION 1
1.1 Background 1
1.2 What is street Addressing? 2
1.3 Why Street Addressing is necessary? 2
1.4 Addressing System 2
1.4.1 Types of Address 2
1.4.2 Addressing System of developing nation 3
1.4.3 Addressing System in India 4
1.4.4 Why India is Lacking behind in an Addressing System? 4
1.5 Need for Study 5
2 LITERATURE REVIEW 7
2.1 Addressing System used Worldwide 7
2.1.1 Plus Code 7
2.1.2 What3Words 8
2.2 Addressing system used in India 9
2.2.1 Indian Postal System 9
2.2.2 E-Loc System 12
2.3 Other Addressing System 12
2.3.1 Geohash 12
2.4 Working of Uber 14
2.5 Geocoding 14
2.5.1 What is Geocoding? 14
2.5.2 What Can Geocoding be used for? 15
2.5.3 Geocoding Types 16
2.5.4 Address Locator 16
2.5.5 Geocoding Process 18
2.6 OSM Toposheet 19
3 AIM AND OBJECTIVES 21
3.1 Aim of the Study 21
3.2 Objectives: 21
4 METHODOLOGY 23
4.1 Methodology Workflow 23
4.2 Study Area 24
4.3 Data Acquisition 25
4.4 Data Cleaning 28
4.5 Data Processing 29
4.5.1 Geocoded Buildings of Ahmedabad City 31
4.5.2 Pincode Data Selection For Grid Logic 32
4.5.3 LULC Data Processing For Plot Level Address 33
4.6 Preliminary Analysis (Analysis – I) 34
4.6.1 Google Map API 34
4.6.2 Nominatim 36
4.6.3 Bing Map 37
4.6.4 Here Map 39
5 RESULTS AND DISCUSSION 41
5.1 Preliminary Analysis (Analysis – I) 41
5.1.1 Comparing Geocoding Distance For Different API 41
5.2 Analytical Hierarchy Process (Analysis – II) 42
5.2.1 Geocoding Technique Comparison with AHP 47
5.3 Grid Structure For Smart Address 49
5.3.1 Grid Structure Terminology 50
5.4 Grid Logic For Smart Address 51
5.4.1 Grid Logic For Pincode 54
5.4.2 Grid Logic For Plot Boundary 55
5.5 Smart Addressing Tool 56
6 Web Portal Development 57
6.1.1 Layer List 58
6.1.2 Infographics 58
6.1.3 Web Portal Examples 59
7 Mobile Application 63
8 CONCLUSION AND RECOMMENDATIONS 65
8.1 Conclusion 65
8.2 Recommendations 66
References 67
Winner of ESRI India Young Scholar Program 71
Plagiarism Report 73