Hacker News Reader

More people in India have a cell phone than have access to a toilet.

True, but does those feature phones have GPS?

no need, once adopted we'll change all the signs on every street and every building.

Plus, do those 50% of the people tend to get lost going from place to place in their daily lives? And do members of the other 50% have a need to be able to precisely locate any of those people without maps, addresses, or street names?

I humbly submit that this is a very nice solution in desperate and ultimately fruitless search for a problem.

And because if it isn't on Google maps it doesn't exist, right?

GPS coordinates work regardless if there is an image on the Google map... a coordinate is a coordinate (which is why the military, aviation industry, maritime industry, agricultural industry, etc... all use coordinates instead of some silly system like this phonetical one.)