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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 ...
Category. : Location codes. 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.
Geocode. 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:
UN/LOCODE, the United Nations Code for Trade and Transport Locations, is a geographic coding scheme developed and maintained by United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE). UN/LOCODE assigns codes to locations used in trade and transport with functions such as seaports , rail and road terminals, airports , Postal Exchange Office and ...
Address geocoding. 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] Reverse geocoding, on the other hand, converts ...
See the ISO 3166-3 standard for former country codes. British Virgin Islands – See Virgin Islands (British). Burma – See Myanmar. Cape Verde – See Cabo Verde. Caribbean Netherlands – See Bonaire, Sint Eustatius and Saba. China, The Republic of – See Taiwan (Province of China). Democratic People's Republic of Korea – See Korea, The ...
Country code. A country code is a short alphanumeric identification code for countries and dependent areas. Its primary use is in data processing and communications. Several identification systems have been developed. The term country code frequently refers to ISO 3166-1 alpha-2, as well as the telephone country code, which is embodied in the E ...
Global Location Number. The Global Location Number (GLN) is part of the GS1 systems of standards. [1] It is a simple tool used to identify a location and can identify locations uniquely where required. This identifier is compliant with norm ISO/IEC 6523. [2] The GS1 Identification Key is used to identify physical locations or legal entities.