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  2. Open Location Code - Wikipedia

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    Open Location Code is a way of encoding location into a form that is easier to use than showing coordinates in the usual form of latitude and longitude. Plus codes are designed to be used like street addresses and may be especially useful in places where there is no formal system to identify buildings, such as street names, house numbers, and ...

  3. Address geocoding - Wikipedia

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    Geocoding relies on a computer representation of address points, the street / road network, together with postal and administrative boundaries. Geocode (verb): [2] provide geographical coordinates corresponding to (a location). Geocode (noun): is a code that represents a geographic entity (location or object).

  4. Geocode - Wikipedia

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    A geocode is a code that represents a geographic entity (location or object). It is a unique identifier of the entity, to distinguish it from others in a finite set of geographic entities. In general the geocode is a human-readable and short identifier. Typical geocodes and entities represented by it: Country code and subdivision code. Polygon ...

  5. Geographic Locator Codes - Wikipedia

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    Use of standard codes facilitates the interchange of machine-readable data from agency to agency within the federal community and between federal offices and state and local groups. These codes are also used by some companies as a coding standard as well, especially those that must deal with federal, state and local governments for such things ...

  6. Wikipedia:Obtaining geographic coordinates - Wikipedia

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    Provides geographical coordinates of a location when a "Pushpin" has been created. Find the feature or the location you want to know the geographical coordinates of, either by manually using the map and zooming in, or by entering a place name or address into the search field. Right-click on the map at the site where you want the pushpin to appear.

  7. Mapcode - Wikipedia

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    The algorithms and data tables are maintained by the Mapcode Foundation, which provides source code and specifications free of charge to any organization that wants to support mapcodes. The mapcode website notes that the term "Mapcode" is a trademark and that the algorithm is patented, [ 5 ] both to prevent "misuse" (defined as producing an ...

  8. List of online map services - Wikipedia

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    geo.be - Geoportal of the Belgian federal institutions; datastore.brussels - covers the Brussels Region; Geopunt - covers the Flemish Region and offers all data as open data downloads and services; WalOnMap - covers the Walloon Region; China. AutoNavi (Gaode). "Baidu Maps", by Baidu. "Tencent Maps", by Tencent. Sogou Map by Sogou

  9. W3C Geolocation API - Wikipedia

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    The location is returned with a given accuracy depending on the best location information source available. The result of W3C Geolocation API will usually give 4 location properties, including latitude and longitude (coordinates), altitude (height), and accuracy [of the position gathered], which all depend on the location sources. [citation needed]