Geocode

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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 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.

Geocode is a proposed standard for the International Committee for Information Technology Standards (INCITS), L1 Geographic Information Systems committee (an ANSI and ISO technical committee).

Some of these code systems are free for use, others have different licences.

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