GISUser reports:
Tuesday, 17 January 2006Beijing, China, PDAger Mobility Inc. (www.PDAger.com) and NAC Geographic Products Inc. (www.nacgeo.com) announced that the two companies have reached an agreement that NAC Geographic Products Inc. license the Natural Area Coding System (http://www.nacgeo.com/nacsite/) to PDAger Mobility Inc. for its wireless location service application – Map4U.
They have an interesting summary of challenges and solutions:
Specifying locations on location based services, especially mobile location based services is a big problem because (i) addresses are always very long and time consuming to input, (ii) addresses are language/character dependent and difficult to input, (iii) addresses are full of variations and difficult for software to parse successfully and (iv) addresses do not exist in more than 99% locations in the world that can’t be specified by street addresses and make street address based location services completely fail. All these problems are solved by the introduction of Universal Addresses which are short (only 8 or 10 characters), language independent (only internationally recognized alphanumeric characters), written in one standard without variations, and exist at all locations in the world without any missing spots. Universal Addresses can be easily included on business cards, yellow page listings, business directories and advertisements. They can be neatly put on photographs under the date to indicate exactly when and where a picture is taken. They can make people answer the question “Where are you?” accurately and easily. They can significantly improve all emergency services no matter in communicating accurate emergency locations or in specifying locations of fire hydrants and other water sources. They can even be used as Global Postal Codes for automatic mail sorting.
A long in-depth article - Happy Reading!
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