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  2. Address geocoding - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Address_geocoding

    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).

  3. 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 ...

  4. 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 ...

  5. What3words - Wikipedia

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    What3words (stylized as what3words) is a proprietary geocode system designed to identify any location on the surface of Earth with a resolution of about 3 metres (9.8 ft). It is owned by What3words Limited, based in London, England. The system encodes geographic coordinates into three permanently fixed

  6. Mapcode - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MapCode

    The shortness is the key differentiating factor between mapcodes and other location references; [1] more densely populated areas are designated with shorter (4 character) codes. The brevity of mapcodes was achieved through a combination of several ideas: Codes need only be accurate enough for human, everyday use.

  7. Geohash - Wikipedia

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    The most important property of Geohash for humans is that it preserves spatial hierarchy in the code prefixes. For example, in the "1 Geohash digit grid" illustration of 32 rectangles, above, the spatial region of the code e (rectangle of greyish blue circle at position 4,3) is preserved with prefix e in the "2 digit grid" of 1024 rectangles ...