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Work · October 6, 2020

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Placekey – An ID for Every Place

Hi, HN, I'm Roshan and I'm part of the team that's launching the Placekey today at https://placekey.io. It is a free and open universal standard identifier we built so that data pertaining to places can be shared across organizations easily. A Placekey is a short identifier that has Address and POI sections detailing What is at a place and a section describing Where on the globe the place is. Eventually, there will be a Placekey for every place in the world, even those without postal addresses. US geospatial data from a large array of partners…

Placekey – An ID for Every Place launched on October 6, 2020 with 24 votes, #927 of 4,018 launches that month and more than 75% of that year's launches.

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Placekey is a free, open standard identifier system that assigns a unique code to every physical place on Earth, including locations without postal addresses. Each Placekey contains sections describing what is at a location and where it is globally. The system enables organizations to easily share and cross-reference location-based data across datasets. Placekey generation is free and currently covers US geospatial data from multiple partner sources, allowing data scientists and researchers to join and share geospatial information more effectively.

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Hi, HN, I'm Roshan and I'm part of the team that's launching the Placekey today at https://placekey.io. It is a free and open universal standard identifier we built so that data pertaining to places can be shared across organizations easily. A Placekey is a short identifier that has Address and POI sections…

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