Google engineers have developed technology that allows the company to use images to read house numbers and match them to geographic positions.
MIT Technology Review explains the significance.
It is useful in places like Japan, where streets are rarely numbered in chronological order, but rather in the order they were constructed. The technology relies on publicly available number images
such as the street address, along with a database of 200,000 numbers taken by Google's Street View cameras.
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