JavaScriptSearch Monday, October 2, 2006; 02:27 AM
NAC Geographic Products Inc. (http://www.nacgeo.com) announced the release of the NAC Enhanced Google Local Search (http://www.travelgis.com/local/) – an integration of the Natural Area Coding System with Google Local Search through the Google AJAX (Asynchronous JavaScript and XML) Search API.
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The NAC Enhanced Google Local Search allows users to use a Natural Area
Code (NAC) in addition to using a street address to specify an area or
location anywhere in the world. A NAC can represent any area or
location in the world. A two-character NAC represents an area about
1000km X 700km (like a province), a four-character NAC represents an
area about 33km X 23km (like a city), a six-character NAC roughly
represents every square kilometer area, an eight-character NAC
represents an area about 35m X 25m (like a building), and a
ten-character NAC approximately represents every square meter on the
earth surface. Since an eight-character or a ten-character NAC has
reached the resolution of a traditional address, it is also called a
Universal Address, for example, NAC: 8KDC PGFC (the Universal Address
of Washington Monument).
“The integration of NAC with Google Local Search produces a real
worldwide local search engine that can work anywhere in the world,”
said Dr. Xinhang Shen, president of NAC Geographic Products Inc., “that
has overcome the limitations of traditional address based specification
of locations, such as inputting traditional addresses of foreign
characters or specifying locations without traditional addresses.”
Using a Universal Address instead of a street address to specify a
location on a local search can also reduce 80% of key input and
eliminate the needs of address databases that frequently produce
outdated matches, no matches, duplicated matches, wrong matches, etc.
The NAC Enhanced Google Local Search also presents its searching
results with the corresponding Universal Address attached to each found
item. Therefore it can be used as a Universal Address lookup service
for location sensitive businesses, with which business owners can find
their Universal Addresses and then put them on their business cards and
advertisements to promote their businesses. Here (http://www.travelgis.com/geocode/)
is another web page for people to look up the Universal Address of any
street address in 24 countries. Universal Addresses can be directly
measured with GPS receivers and have been widely implemented in many
wireless location based services (such as http://mlbs.net), GPS navigating systems (such as http://locamagic.biz),
etc. If you use key words: “Universal Address” and “Resort” to search
Google, you will see thousands of resorts that have included their
Universal Addresses as part of their addresses.
Universal Addresses can be used as universal identifiers for bus stops,
gates, parking meters, street lights, trees, sewage exits, fire
hydrants and any other fixed objects. Using Universal Addresses as
global postal codes can make all sorting machines able to sort mail
from world level to final mail boxes automatically. The wide use of
Universal Address enhanced GPS watches or cellphones can greatly
accelerate the globalization and make accurate locations as useful as
accurate time for all human activities and events.
Incorporated in 1995 in Toronto, Canada, NAC Geographic Products Inc.
is a world’s leading company in geographic information technologies.
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