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Explore how Plus Codes can benefit individuals and organizations.

Using Plus Codes as an individual

Use Plus Codes to share any location—your home, a store, a meeting place - even if there are no street names or even streets. Friends, family, and service providers will find your home without relying on landmarks or asking for directions along the way.

When you travel to unfamiliar places, Plus Codes save you time by guiding you directly to your exact destination.

Using Plus Codes as an organization

Small and medium-sized business

Help customers find you by giving them your Plus Code. If you deliver goods to customers, you can find the right location easily using their Plus Codes, even without street names and numbers.

Small and medium-sized business

Small and medium-sized business

Help customers find you by giving them your Plus Code. If you deliver goods to customers, you can find the right location easily using their Plus Codes, even without street names and numbers.

Commercial delivery

Commercial delivery

Get goods to the right place, every time - whether it's areas with traditional addressing, areas with no street names, rural areas or informal settlements. Use Plus Codes to get precise pickup and drop-off locations so your logistics operations run smoothly and efficiently.

Emergency services

Emergency services

Help responders get assistance to citizens as fast as possible, with Plus Codes that pinpoint locations accurately. Coordinate rescue efforts with partner agencies for rapid service using an easy to use shared location code.

Government

Government

Deliver services to all citizens, including mail and social assistance, no matter where they live. Ensure that citizens receive official communications and can register to vote.

NGO

NGO

Using Plus Codes, deliver humanitarian and disaster relief to coordinate activities in regions where mapping data is incomplete or nonexistent. Conduct better record-keeping and tracking of services by detailing locations served.

Case Studies

Case Studies

Addressing the Unaddressed

Unlocking essential services for over 500,000 residents in informal settlements.

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CEP Digital: Bringing Addresses and Inclusion to Brazilian Favelas

Bringing digital inclusion and e-commerce to 55 Brazilian favelas.

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Favela Brasil Xpress

A grassroots partnership providing digital addresses to 120,000 residents.

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Jardines de San Juan: On the Map, In the Heart

Assigning digital identity to thousands of residents near Mexico City to bridge the divide between "unaddressable" outskirts and essential urban services.

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County governments in Kenya

Partnering with local governments to assign 40,000 digital addresses to businesses and social amenities, sparking economic growth across the Kisumu and Vihiga Counties, Kenya.

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International Rescue Committee (IRC)

Using Plus Codes, the International Rescue Committee (IRC) mapped locations of clients for an immunization and family planning project, ensuring that women and children received timely follow-up care.

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Nepal Postal Service

A nationwide mandate for 753 local bodies to adopt Plus Codes, ensuring letters and parcels reach even the most remote mountain dwellings.

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PlanAct South Africa

Turning informal dwellings into recognized homes through community-led mapping.

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Rural Utah Project

Empowering Native American voters by assigning Plus Codes to 5,500 remote structures.

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Rural Routes of São Paulo and Google's Plus Codes

In the state of São Paulo, the absence of standardized addresses for rural properties represented a significant obstacle.To tackle this challenge, the Government of the State of São Paulo and Google launched the "Rotas Rurais" program, integrating Plus Codes technology into the state's rural addressing system.

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Shelter Associates

Leveraging architectural expertise and Plus Codes to bring addresses to 1,700 families in the dense urban settlement of Rajendra Nagar.

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Modernizing municipal services in The Gambia

A D30 million municipal pilot project using Plus Codes to modernize waste management and property tax collection for thousands of residents.

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