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DIGIPIN: an address for every 4-metre square

A case study that designs a GeoHash-based location service around DIGIPIN's goal: a 10-character code for every small square of India, worked out from latitude and longitude, served through edge and Redis caches, PostGIS partitioned by state, and three regions that survive a lost database.

01 · Lane 7, somewhere
CASE-006 · Building DIGIPIN: From Chaos to 4-Meter Precision Across India's Digital Geography

Building No. 42, Lane 7. But which lane?

One shop, a maze of lanes

Picture Priya, a delivery driver in Mumbai, looking for one shop in the maze of lanes in Dharavi.