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- Commuters crossing the road on Khalifah Street in Abu Dhabi.
Abu Dhabi: Finding your favourite restaurant or telling the civil defence the location of an emergency you witnessed will soon become easier in the UAE with the help of a new unified address system that will uniquely identify each location.
The address system is being developed by the Department of Municipal Affairs (DMA), the umbrella body for municipalities in Abu Dhabi emirate. It was approved by the Executive Committee of the Abu Dhabi Executive Council last week, shortly after the new standards received federal approval.
Addresses on the new system will include the building number, street name, city name, the emirate, the assigned postal code and the country, Dr Abdullah Al Beloushi, executive director of land and property management at the DMA, told Gulf News.
“The absence of a unified address system has previously made it difficult to locate places, and this new system will aim to solve these issues,” he added.
Earlier, addresses in Abu Dhabi were established based on a district-oriented system.
“This older system, mainly used by engineers and utility companies, required people to know and remember various city districts. Moreover, many streets were only numbered, and so streets in different districts had the same number. The addresses were too complicated for ordinary people, especially tourists
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