Private Reference Document

MAKANI
How Dubai Solved
Location at National Scale

"This is a quiet documentation of how Dubai turned location into national infrastructure and what that decision made possible."

Anas bin Abdul Latheef
2025
12 Chapters · 6 Parts
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MAKANI
How Dubai Solved Location at National Scale
Anas bin Abdul Latheef

Contents

Six Parts, Twelve Chapters

Part I The Problem
01 Cities Without Addresses 02 When Scale Breaks Navigation
Part II The Idea
03 The Solution 04 How the MAKANI Number Works
Part III The System
05 Engineering Precision 06 Inside the Technology Stack 07 Indoor Navigation Changes Everything
Part IV Scale
08 Scaling Across Emirates 09 Collaboration Over Control
Part V Impact
10 Commerce, Deliveries, and Reality 11 Emergency Response and Lives Saved
Part VI The Future
12 MAKANI as a Digital Twin