A Geocode (Geospatial Entity Object Code) is representation format of a geospatial coordinate measurement used to provide a standard representation of an exact geospatial point location at, below, above the surface of the earth at a specified moment of time.
A Geocode representation format is a combination of some or all of the following geospatial attributes:
- Geocode Format Registry Number,
- Latitude,
- Longitude,
- Altitude,
- Date,
- Local Time,
- Global Time in Universal Coordinated Time (UTC) format,
- Coordinate Reference System - (Coordinate Reference System Type Registry Number - IS0 19115, Geodetic Reference Ellipsoid, Registry Number, Geodetic Reference Datum Registry Number, Coordinate Format Registration Number - ISO 19145),
- Coordinate Sensor Accuracy for Latitude, Longitude and/or Altitude,
- Internet Protocol Version 4 (IPv4) address or Internet Protocol, Version 6 (IPv6) address in Compressed, Uncompressed or Fully Uncompressed decimal format,
- Other geospatial attributes.
Mandatory attributes included in the Geocode representation format are Geocode Format Registry, Latitude, and Longitude. All other attributes are voluntary.
A Geocode is an all-natural number representation format specification.
Geocode is a patented geospatial representation format under US Patents 6,681,231 approved July 26, 2003 and 7,107,286, approved May 4, 2006.
Geocode is a registered US Federal trademark, US Registration Number 3182988, approved December 12, 2006.
Geocode is a federally registered copyrighted computer software program, US Registration Number TX-6-603-127, dated July 26, 1999.
List of some code systems
Some of these code systems are free for use, others have different licences. The verb license or grant license means to give permission The noun license is the document demonstrating that permission
- ISO 6709 Standard Representation for Geographic Point Location by Coordinates
- Car License plates
- C-squares - compact encoding of geographic coordinate bounds (latitude-longitude)
- FIPS country codes (FIPS 10-4), area code, administrative, free
- FIPS place codes (FIPS 55) U.S. only, free
- FIPS county codes (FIPS 6-4) US only, free
- FIPS state codes (FIPS 5-2) US only, free
- Geohash, compact string encoding of a geographic coordinate with arbitrary precision, in public domain
- Georef, a military / air naviation co-ordinate system for point and area identification
- IATA airport codes, area /point codes, airports
- ICAO airport codes, area /point codes, airports
- IANA country codes similar to ISO 3166-1 alpha-2
- IOC country codes, area, worldwide
- ISO 3166 country and subdivision codes
- ITU-R country codes
- ITU-T country calling codes
- ITU-T mobile calling codes
- Maidenhead Locator System
- MapDot Protocol: world locations coded into a zone sequence[1], free
- MARC country codes
- Marsden Squares
- NAC, area codes (area can be indefinitely small)
- NUTS area code, partially administrative, worldwide: countries, Europe : country to community
- ONS code, UK only, administrative
- Postal codes, area, worldwide, country-codes by UPU, free
- Quarter Degree Grid Cells
- UN M.49 region codes, area code, continents, countries (like ISO 3166-1 numeric)
- SALB (Second Administrative Level Boundaries), by UN [2]
- SGC codes, Canada only, statistical
- UN/LOCODE, area, administrative, cities
- UTM
- WMO squares
See also
- Geocoding
- GIS
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