If we are interested in a border less world, what kind of address we shall give to a friend who wants to visit? Or deliver a letter to someone?
Currently the postal departments all over the world use a very hierarchical way of locating a place. First we name a country, then a state, district, town, street, building and if you live in an apartment, the flat number, and then of course person’s name. All this sounds very logical and politically correct. But in a world where there are several possessed boundaries. When such political boundaries do not exist, how would you locate yourself?
In the current modern techno-savvy world, we can simply use latitude and longitude of the place. Perfect! But the lat-long numbers are difficult to remember.
If we link lat-long to a landmark, and if the landmark has a unique number, and if the landmark is not a political boundary, such as e.g. a tree that lives longer than most buildings and roads we build, we have a better system of locating ourselves.
For example, I can say that I work close to tree 355, live close to tree 400. We can also give directions, e.g. turn right at tree 320, stop opposite tree 455. Since there are many many trees the numbers will go on increasing, which may become difficult to remember.
We recently started a citizen science project to map the trees, map all the trees, in India. It is in this context that I realized that the platform that we have built assigning serial numbers to the trees and to the planting sites. Then it occurred to me we can use these numbers as another way of giving address to ourselves and the sites we inhabit.

tree 51 at metaStudio
I meet visitors at my office and eat my lunch, drink tea/coffee at tree 51 of http://trees.metastudio.org/.
If you want to create such landmarks and try to grab a smaller easy to remember number for your address, join at http://trees.metaStudio.org/ and map your tree anywhere in India. If you live in any other part of the world, please send us a request by naming the locality where you want to create a landmark tree, we will create a tree mapping site for you.