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 patented under US Patents 6,681,231, approved July 26, 2003, and 7,107,286, approved May 4, 2006.
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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 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
Latitude, usually denoted by the Greek letter phi gives the location of a place on Earth north or south of the equator. Lines of Latitude are the imaginary horizontal lines shown running east-to-west on maps that run either north or south of the equator...
- Longitude
Longitude , identified by the Greek letter lambda , is the geographic coordinate most commonly used in cartography and global navigation for east-west measurement...
- Altitude
Altitude is defined based on the context in which it is used . As a general definition, altitude is a distance measurement, usually in the vertical or "up" direction, between a reference datum and a point or object...
- Date
- Local time
- Global time in Coordinated Universal Time
Coordinated Universal Time , ) is a time standard based on International Atomic Time with leap seconds added at irregular intervals to compensate for the Earth's slowing rotation...
(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
Internet Protocol version 4 is the fourth revision in the development of the Internet Protocol and it is the first version of the protocol to be widely deployed. Together with IPv6, it is at the core of standards-based internetworking methods of the Internet...
) address or Internet Protocol, version 6 (IPv6Internet Protocol version 6 is the next-generation Internet Protocol version designated as the successor to IPv4, the first implementation used in the Internet and still in dominant use ....
) 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.