In all my travels, I found few cities as intimidating to navigate as Tokyo. Apparently I was not alone.
"A capital city without road names is a huge handicap...."
...Tokyo Ubiquitous Network Project, where scientists are planning a computer infrastructure that they say will fill such information gaps for good and enable us to give our maps, guidebooks and A-Zs that longed-for heave-ho.
Heading the project is Tokyo University professor Ken Sakamura -who, with the aid of the Japanese government, is well on his way to building the world's first truly public ubiquitous computer network. It's "an infrastructure for the 21st century", he says, adding that it will see our everyday landscape guide us, inform us and generally hold our hand in an increasingly puzzling world."
Read more at The Guardian
A number of developing countries have a similar issue of nameless roads (or in places like India, undocumented buildings and roads) - Tokyo's experiment should be interesting to them also
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