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- This page describes a proprietary technology under the title GEOCODE. For a conventional description of the topic of geocodes, see Geocoding.
GEOCODE (Geospatial Entity Object Code) is a standardized all-natural number representation format specification for geospatial coordinate measurements that provide details of the exact location of geospatial point at, below, or above the surface of the earth at a specified moment of time.
Geocode is a patented under US Patents 6,681,231 approved July 26, 2003 and 7,107,286, approved May 4, 2006. Geocode is also 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.
Attributes
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 Coordinated Universal 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.
See also
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- Geocoding - description of conventional/generic use of this term
- GIS
- Geographic coordinate system
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