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  2. Geocode - Wikipedia

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    The syntax and semantic of the geocodes are also components of the system definition: geocode syntax: the characters that can be used, blocks of characters and its size and order. Example: country codes use two letters of the alphabet (chacacter set A-Z). The most common way to describe formally is by regular expression (e.g. /[A-Z]{2,2}/).

  3. Geographic Locator Codes - Wikipedia

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    Worldwide Geographic Location Codes (GLCs) list the number and letter codes federal agencies should use in designating geographic locations anywhere in the United States or abroad in computer programs. Use of standard codes facilitates the interchange of machine-readable data from agency to agency within the federal community and between ...

  4. Open Location Code - Wikipedia

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    Location codes created by the OLC system are referred to as "plus codes". 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 ...

  5. 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).

  6. Category:Geocodes - Wikipedia

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    A geocode is a geographical code to identify a point or area at the surface of the earth. Subcategories This category has the following 14 subcategories, out of 14 total.

  7. Geopositioning - Wikipedia

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    Principles of geolocation using GPS. Geopositioning is the process of determining or estimating the geographic position of an object or a person. [1] Geopositioning yields a set of geographic coordinates (such as latitude and longitude) in a given map datum.

  8. This Is What Your ZIP Code Actually Means - AOL

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    ZIP codes consist of five numbers, each with its own individual meaning which helps your mail and packages end up in the right area of the country—and even the right local post office (more on ...

  9. Location identifier - Wikipedia

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    Unlike the IATA codes, they changed when renaming some cities of the former USSR in the 1990s, e.g. Saint Petersburg (formerly Leningrad), which was ЛЕД and became СПТ. As of 2009, about 3,000 code combinations of internal code are in use. List of three-letter internal cyrillic codes used in Russia can be found in the list of airports in ...