By Mario Matthew
Have you ever traveled internationally specifically to the Caribbean particularly with most of these destinations offering a Nomad Visa?
( extended stay for 6 months or more) and wondered about having food or any other item for that matter delivered to wherever you were but could not do it because of a lack of address …
… This phenomenon is more common than one might think throughout the region in that the majority of islands do not have home addresses which would facilitate easy home delivery.
As an islander myself, I am aware of how frustrating this process can be when getting anything delivered or more importantly to having emergency services find where you live. I have been in situations at night of having to stand outside on the road in a community with the flashlight on my phone to enable easy discovery by the ambulance.
The process of creating a Plus Code can be done with the Delivery Position app on the Play Store:
- Allowing popups for location services to ensure we are able to find you for delivery purposes
- entering your name and phone number into the provided fields in order to submit the form
- clicking on the longitude and latitude fields to ensure you can see a Google Maps placement of your location or pin drop.
- Selecting the hamburger menu buttons on the upper left (second set).
- Selecting Satellite View
- You can either hit the back button on you phone to return to the original screen with your name and phone number or move the map to a location of your chosing and long press to drop a pin; slide upwards from the bottom and select the share icon; now hit the back button on your phone to return to the original screen and paste the information into the additional information field.
It’s that simple. Submitting the information will enable us to find you for delivery purposes. A bonus will be that your delivery comes with the Google Plus Code for your location. This location can be given to anyone anywhere in the world.
Let’s say you arrived at the airport and wanted to go to your AirBnB; you can enter this Plus Code in your phone from the Airport to get Google Maps direct driving instructions to your location.
To have an actual location address provided would enable a better quality of life for so many aspects of our lives from meal and package delivery to emergency services responses in a timely fashion. Please download the Delivery Position app from the Google Play Store or you can use the web to have the same services provided here.