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Location codes are numeric, alphabetic, or alphanumeric codes that designate a particular place, location, region or landmark. These include ISO 3166 country codes; U.S. FIPS country code, place code, county code and state code; ICAO and IATA airport codes; Amtrak railway station 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 formal system to identify buildings, such as street names, house numbers, and ...
Address geocoding, or simply geocoding, is the process of taking a text-based description of a location, such as an address or the name of a place, and returning geographic coordinates, frequently latitude/longitude pair, to identify a location on the Earth's surface. [1]
Four- and six-digit codes are described in the opening section as valid only when combined with a locality; however, Google Maps and the site plus.codes supports shortened codes. The behavior of the websites appears to be that the inferred location of the browser is used to generate the unspecified leading digits.
There are also mixed systems, using a syntactical partition, where for example the first part (code prefix) is a name-code and the other part (code suffix) is a grid-code. Example: Mapcode entrance to the elevator of the Eiffel Tower in Paris is FR-4J.Q2, where FR is the name-code [9] and 4J.Q2 is the grid-code. Semantically France is the ...
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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.
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