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Universal Address Makes Mobile GMaps Universal
October 25, 2007, Toronto, Canada, NAC Geographic Products Inc.
and Mr. Cristian Streng - owner of Mobile GMaps proudly announced
the release of NAC enhanced Mobile GMaps.
A Natural Area Code (NAC) is an efficient and unified
representation for both an area and a location anywhere in the world, which can uniquely specify any city-sized area
in the world with only four characters, every square kilometer with six characters, every building-sized area with
eight characters, and every square meter with ten characters. NACs can be used as geographic coordinates, universal
addresses, global postcodes, universal area codes and universal property identifiers to bridge the gaps caused by
different languages and traditions of different countries and to make all these representations highly efficient.
Therefore, eight and ten character NACs are also called Universal Addresses. The NAC of any area, location or street
address in the world can be found on www.travelgis.com/map.asp
and www.travelgis.com/geocode/. Businesses should
include their Universal Addresses as part of addresses on their business cards, advertisements and yellow pages so
that their customers can find them easily.
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Mobile GMaps is a free wireless map application for most Java enabled cellphones. It provides high resolution
satellite images, aerial maps and detail street maps from Yahoo, Microsoft Virtual Earth, Ask.com and other sources,
as well as local search, turn-by-turn directions and additional services. Users now can use NACs to specify areas and
locations for retrieving maps, getting driving directions and searching local amenities anywhere in the world. The
application also combines the four latitude/longitude coordinates of the bounding rectangle of each item from
Wikimapia into a single NAC. If the cellphone is equipped with GPS, it will also display the GPS location in NAC
which functions like a location watch to tell exact location.
"Mobile GMaps is designed for all users in the world, especially those traveling across different countries with
different languages," said Mr. Streng, "street addresses are language/character dependent and also quite long which
are difficult and time consuming for traveler to input. Many locations even do not have street addresses at all. Now,
users have got a new option to use NACs which can complement the limitations of street addresses and make Mobile GMaps
able to specify locations highly efficient, language independent and universal."
"The release of NAC enhanced Mobile GMaps - the world’s most powerful wireless map application represents another
breakthrough of the Universal Address System on the consumer market," said Dr. Xinhang Shen, president of NAC
Geographic Products Inc., "and Universal Addresses also makes Mobile GMaps a truly universal navigation system."
NAC Google Brings the Power of Universal Addresses onto Your Desktop
September 20, 2007, Toronto, Canada,
NAC Geographic Products Inc. announced the release
of NAC Google - a powerful Google Desktop
gadget that has integrated NAC Enhanced Google Maps, Google Local Search and Google Driving
Directions onto one simple user interface, and brings the ease and power of Universal Addresses and Google Maps
directly onto your desktop. You can immediately get any of these services not only with lat/lon pairs, street
addresses, street intersections, POIs and postcodes/ZIPs, but also with Universal Addresses.
Commonly used street addresses for location based services have many problems. They are always
very long and it is time consuming to input them. They are language dependent and it is difficult to type
when they contain foreign characters. They are full of variations and frequently result in failures. They
are available to very limited locations (<1% of the earth surface) and more than 99% of locations can't be
specified by street addresses.
Enhanced with the capability of the Universal Addresses, users of NAC Google can directly get the maps
including high resolution satellite images, seach nearby businesses and obtain turn-by-turn driving directions of
any locations in the world whenever they want on their desktop thanks to the efficiency, language independency
and geographic complet coverage of the Universal Addresses. For example, you can simply input the short Universal
Address: H5Q2 R48Q to get the
map of Eiffel Tower in Paris instantly.
A Universal Address is an eight or ten character
Natural Area Code (NAC) which can represent both areas and locations anywhere in the world.
A two character NAC can specify any area about 1000 km in length and width
like a province, a four character NAC represents a 30 km long and wide area (like a city) approximately,
a six character NAC is roughly equivalent to any square kilometer area on the earth, an eight character
NAC can uniquely identify every house or building in the world, and a ten character NAC can pinpoint
any location in the world to the resolution of one meter.
With the Natural Area Codes, people can easily represent any areas and locations from countries,
provinces, national conservation parks, cities, stadiums, museums, universities, hospitals, shopping malls
to hotels, restaurants, post offices, railway stations, bus stops, docks, street lights, fire hydrants,
sewage exits, electric wirepoles, trees; and from locations of crimes scenes, accidents, pollutions,
underwater wreckages, news events to locations of your dating benches, BBQ tables, camping sites and
fishing spots. Therefore, more and more businesses start including the Universal Addresses on their
websites, advertisements, business cards and yellow pages listings such as Campgrounds.
Here are some examples of NAC enhanced
products and services:
- NAC Earth - a Universal Address enhanced
Google Earth which allows users to fly to any locations in its virtual earth.
- NAC Smart Tag DLL automatically highlighting
all the Universal Addresses on Outlook emails, Word documents, Excel spreadsheets, PowerPoint presentations
and Access databases and linking them to their corresponding detail satellite images.
- Locamagic - a NAC enhanced GPS cellphone application
providing positioning, locating, navigating, local business searching, real-time tracking and real-time
monitoring services.
- Universal Addresses Lookup Service and Free
Geocoding Service providing Universal Addresses for any locations in the world.
- NAC Enhanced Google Maps mapping Universal
Addresses of any locations in the world on high resolution satellite images.
- NAC Enhanced Google Local displaying the
Universal Addresses of all nearby businesses of any location.
- NAC Enhanced Google Driving Directions
providing driving directions between the Universal Addresses of any locations.
With NAC Google, all main stream media (televisions, radios, newspapers and magazines) now can easily participate
in the discussion of tourist attractions, natural disasters, and important events anywhere in the world as effective
as online websites by publishing Universal Addresses with their reviews and reports so that their audience and
readers can get to the "scenes" instantly on NAC Google. They can also publish hot virtual sightseeing destinations
gracefully on their travel sections daily or weekly thanks to the efficiency and beauty of the Universal Addresses.
Here are some sample Universal Addresses:
All computers with Google Desktop can install NAC Google. You can download the installation package
here free of charge.
About NAC Geographic Products Inc.
Incorporated in 1995 in Toronto, Canada, NAC Geographic Products Inc. is a world's leading company in
geographic information technologies. In addition to the Natural Area Coding System, the company has
developed many important GIS software products and provides
real-time geo-services
(geocoding, reverse-geocoding, mapping, driving directions, nearby business searching and traffic information)
for web applications and wireless location based services.
NAC Enhanced Google Earth Flies You to Natural Wonders with Universal Addresses
August 20, 2007, Toronto, Canada,
NAC Geographic Products Inc. announced the release
of the NAC Enhanced Google Earth (NAC Earth)
with a new user interface to bridge Natural
Area Codes (NAC) and Google Earth through Google Earth's COM APIs to provide a truely language-independent,
geographic coverage complete and highly efficient way for users to fly around, search nearby businesses and
get driving directions on Google Earth no matter a destination is a famous museum with street address or a
newly found natural wonder without steet address.
Virtual sightseeing on Google Earth has become popular and there are many websites which publish KML files
to show tourist attractions on Google Earth. It's a great experience that users can fly to and enjoy all famous
and spectacular sceneries instantly, economically and environment-friendly. However, all main stream media
(televisions, radios, newspapers and magazines) without hyperlink capabilities are rarely active in publishing
the exact location information for all these natural wonders and historical sites due to the inefficiency
of the longitude/latitude coordinates - the only way currently supported on Google Earth to represent any
given location on the earth.
Now NAC Earth has solved this problem, and users can simply input a short Universal Address (such as
H5Q2 R48Q) to get to any scene
in the world (such as Eiffel Tower in Paris) as they want immediately on the NAC Enhanced Google Earth.
A Universal Address is an eight or ten character NAC which can be used to represent both an area and a
location anywhere in the world. A two character NAC can specify any area about 1000 km in length and width
like a province, a four character NAC represents a 30 km long and wide area like a city approximately,
a six character NAC is roughly equivalent to any square kilometer area on the earth, an eight character
NAC can uniquely identify every house or building in the world, and a ten character NAC can pinpoint
any location in the world to the resolution of one meter.
With the Natural Area Codes, people can easily represent any areas and locations, from countries,
provinces, national conservation parks, cities, stadiums, museums, universities, hospitals, shopping malls,
railway stations and docks to hotels, restaurants, post offices, street lights, fire hydrants,
sewage exits, electric wirepoles and trees, and from locations of crimes scenes, accidents, pollutions,
underwater wreckages and news events to locations of your dating benches, BBQ tables, camping sites and
fishing spots. There are already many NAC enhanced products and services available such as:
- Locamagic - a NAC enhanced GPS cellphone application
providing positioning, locating, navigating, local business searching, real-time tracking and real-time
monitoring services.
- Universal Addresses Lookup Service and Free
Geocoding Service providing Universal Addresses for any locations in the world.
- NAC Enhanced Google Maps mapping Universal
Addresses of any locations in the world on high resolution satellite images.
- NAC Enhanced Google Local displaying the
Universal Addresses of all nearby businesses of any location.
- NAC Enhanced Google Driving Directions
providing driving directions between the Universal Addresses of any locations.
- NAC Smart Tag DLL automatically highlighting
all the Universal Addresses on Outlook emails, Word documents, Excel spreadsheets, PowerPoint presentations
and Access databases and linking them to their corresponding detail satellite images.
With the Universal Addresses and NAC Earth, all main stream media (televisions, radios, newspapers
and magazines) now can easily participate the discussion of tourist attractions, natural disasters
and other important events anywhere in the world as effectively as online websites by publishing their Universal
Addresses together with the reviews and reports to make their audience or readers able to get to the "scenes"
instantly on NAC Earth. They can also publish hot virtual sightseeing destinations gracefully on their travel
sections daily or weekly thanks to the efficiency and beauty of the Universal Addresses. Here are some examples
of Universal Addresses:
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NAC Earth can also help police officers, journalists, road inspectors, environment monitors, sales professionals,
real estate agents and school teachers to efficiently navigate in the virturl world provided by Google Earth.
About NAC Geographic Products Inc.
Incorporated in 1995 in Toronto, Canada, NAC Geographic Products Inc. is a world's leading company in
geographic information technologies. In addition to the Natural Area Coding System, the company has
developed many important GIS software products and provides
real-time geo-services
(geocoding, reverse-geocoding, mapping, driving directions, nearby business searching and traffic information)
for web applications and wireless location based services.
Universal Address Enhanced Google Driving Directions Tells You How to Get
to a Fishing Spot
Don't worry the lack of the street address! Every spot has its own Universal
Address.
June 27, 2007, Toronto, Canada,
NAC Geographic Products Inc.
announced the release
of the NAC
Enhanced Google Driving
Directions - an integration of Natural
Area Coding System and Google Driving Directions through Google's powerful
AJAX APIs to provide a
truely language-independent global service to connect any locations in the
world no matter whether there
are street addresses or not.
The NAC Enhanced Google Driving Directions allows users to use a Natural Area
Code (NAC) in addition
to latitude/longitude coordinates, street addresses, POIs and ZIP/postcodes to
specify start, stop and
end locations. A NAC is an efficiently represention of any area and 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, the Universal
Address of Washington
Monument is NAC:
8KDB
PGFD.
Currently, the tourist industry seems to have only one option, i.e., to use
street addresses to represent the
locations of attractions and facilities on advertisements and travel brochures.
These street addresses
are language-dependent and are nearly impossible for many foreign people to
input into a computer in order
to get driving directions, and therefore, many people may skip the facilities
with difficult addresses which
causes the loss of customers and sales for their operators," said Dr.
Xinhang Shen, president of
NAC Geographic Products Inc. "Now highly efficient and language-independent
Universal Addresses can be
added to represent these locations, just as done by many
camp grounds, with which drivers can immediately get the driving
directions, which will greatly benefit
both tourists and operators.
NAC Enhanced Google Driving Directions not only gives you directions to houses
and buildings, but also to any
locations (fire hydrants, electric wire poles, street lights, potholes, sewage
exits, fishing
spots, trees, BBQ tables, emergency locations, etc) thanks to the Universal
Addresses.
If you don't have the Universal Address of a given location, you can obtain it
on
Universal Address
Lookup Service and
NAC Enhanced Google
Maps.
If you want to find the Universal Address of a business or tourist attraction
near any given location, try
NAC Enhanced Google
Local Search which
will list the Universal Address of each found business (you can also use a
Universal Address to specify
the location for the local search). If you want to get the Universal Address of
your current location,
you can use a NAC enhanced GPS receiver to measure it, such as
Locamagic (which also provides all NAC enhanced locating/positioning,
navigating, biz searching,
tracking and monitoring services).
If you have a WAP capable cellphone, you can get all the NAC enhanced location
based services on
Mobile Location Based Services
Network.
If you want to find underwater treasures, please check
GeoDiving which lists all available treasures with their Universal
Addresses.
The release of NAC Enhanced Google Driving Directions marks the mature of the
era for all people in the
world to use the Universal Address for all daily activities, just like accurate
time.
About NAC Geographic Products Inc.
Incorporated in 1995 in Toronto, Canada, NAC Geographic Products Inc. is a
world's leading company in
geographic information technologies. In addition to the Natural Area Coding
System, the company has
developed many important GIS software products and provides
real-time
geo-services
(geocoding, reverse-geocoding, mapping, driving directions, nearby business
searching and traffic information)
for web applications and wireless location based services.
NAC Smart Tag Turns Microsoft Office into Layman's GIS
February 26, 2007, Toronto, Canada, NAC Geographic Products Inc. announced the release of the NAC Smart Tag DLL for Microsoft Office - an integration of the Natural Area Coding System with Microsoft Smart Tag technology.
Smart tags enable real-time, dynamic recognition of content and offer relevant options to people as they work to allow them to quickly access and analyze information. Microsoft has already included the smart tags for Financial Symbol, Address, Place, Date, Telephone Number, Time and Personal Name in its Office suite including Outlook email software.
Although Address and Place smart tags can correctly recognize most US addresses, they are not able to handle international addresses, not mention addresses in other languages and characters or locations without addresses.
Therefore, a smart tag for any area or any location in the world is urgently demanded. NAC Smart Tag is exactly such a tag based on a Natural Area Code (NAC) which always starts with "NAC: " followed by two character strings separated by one blank space. NAC is highly efficient which can specify an area about 1000km X 670km anywhere in the world with two characters, 35km X 23km with four characters, a square kilometer (1200m X 750m) with six characters, a building size area (40m X 25m) with eight characters and a square meter (1.3m X 0.8m) with ten characters. It is also language independent and covers all locations and areas in the world.
"Before the introduction of NAC Smart Tag, due to the lack of universal smart tags for all locations and areas in the world, referencing an accurate location is very inconvenient and therefore rarely seen in Office documents. But now with the help of NAC Smart Tag, referencing accurate locations and areas becomes so simple that people type the NACs of accurate locations in any Office document which will automatically turn them into smart tags highlighted with either underlined red dots or a colored cell corner," said Dr. Xinhang Shen, president of NAC Geographic Products Inc., "readers can simply click a smart tag to get the high resolution satellite image showing its exact location without the help of other software." Here is an example of a NAC Smart Tag:
NAC: 8KDB PGFD
If you have installed the NAC Smart Tag DLL on your computer, moving the cursor on it will pop up its action menu and you can click it to get the map of the NAC immediately.
Because of the convenience of using NAC Smart Tag to specify any accurate location or area in the world, police officers, journalists and other authors can include NACs in their reports or emails so that readers of the documents can conveniently get the maps of the exact locations whenever they want. All salespersons can store the NACs of their customers in an Excel spreadsheet or an Access table which can be used as an efficient tool to map any customer location on the list without the support of any GIS software.
NAC Smart Tags in Office documents can even be saved with the contents in web pages which can be directly published on the Internet to significantly reduce the work of referencing accurate locations for location sensitive stories. Search engines can even use the NACs to sort stories according to their locations.
People may say "Yes, NAC Smart Tag is amazing, but where can we get it for a given location?" If you have a NAC enhanced GPS receiver (GPS cepphones, GPS watches, GPS cameras, etc) such as Locamagic, you can simply click a button to get the NAC of your current location instantly. If you don't have such a device, you can also get it on NAC Lookup Service or NAC Enhanced Google Maps. You can even get the NACs of a list of street addresses in 24 countries through a batch geocoding service from NAC Geographic Products Inc. That means that everybody can use NAC Smart Tag and enjoy its convenience right now.
The FREE NAC Smart Tag turns Microsoft Office into powerful and easy-to-use GIS software for general users.
Google Local Search Has Been Integrated with Universal Address
September 28, 2006. Toronto, Canada, 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 Search API.
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.
About NAC Geographic Products Inc.
Incorporated in 1995 in Toronto, Canada, NAC Geographic Products Inc. is a world’s leading company in geographic information technologies. In addition to the Natural Area Coding System, the company has developed many important GIS software products and provides real-time geo-services (geocoding, reverse-geocoding, mapping, driving directions, nearby business searching and traffic information) for web applications and wireless location based services.
The Universal Address System Gets Adopted in China
January 17, 2006. Beijing, 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.The Natural Area Coding System is a new geodetic system that uses simple codes called Natural Area Codes (NAC) to unify all geographic coordinates, area codes, addresses, postal codes, map grids, map sheet codes and property identifiers in the world. A two character NAC can uniquely represent an area about 1200km by 750km anywhere in the world; a four character NAC can represent a 40km by 25km area in the world; a six character NAC can specify every square kilometer on the earth surface; an eight character NAC can uniquely represent every area about 30m by 25 m in the world; and a ten character NAC can represent every square meter on the earth surface. Usually, any city in the world can be represented by a four character NAC such as NAC: 8C Q8 representing Toronto, NAC: T0 N1 representing Hangzhou, and NAC: T3 N6 representing Shanghai. A six character NAC can be used to specify any street block or small town in the world. An eight character NAC can be used to represent a building or a house. A ten character NAC can be used to specify roadside small objects such as a fire hydrant, an electric wire pole, a street light, a sewage exit, etc. Since an eight or ten character NAC has reached the resolution of street addresses, they are also called Universal Addresses. With Universal Addresses, people can conveniently specify any locations no matter they are temporary camping sites, fishing spots, or permanent store locations.
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.
The Natural Area Coding System has been widely adopted in the world (as shown on http://www.nacgeo.com/media.asp). Now there have already been 24 countries in North America, South America, Europe, Asia and Pacific Region digitized with Universal Addresses. There are many Universal Addresses enhanced commercial wireless location based services available in all industrialized countries, such as Locamagic (http://locamagic.biz/help/) and Mobile Location Based Services Network (http://mlbs.net/demo/).
"Location based services are not growing as fast as expected in China. One of the major reasons is that the complexity, variations and incompleteness of traditional addresses plus the difficulty of inputting Chinese characters make the method based on traditional addresses to specify locations inefficient and unreliable," said Mr. Savio Chu, Chairman of the board of PDAger Mobility Inc., "the Universal Address System seems the right solution to solve all these problems. We are glad that PDAger has become the first company in China to adopt the Universal Address System. The high efficiency and high reliability brought by the Universal Address System will surely further improve the satisfaction of Map4U's users in accessing its location based services."
"This agreement represents a historical step for the Universal Address System to be widely adopted in China," added by Dr. Xinhang Shen, president of NAC Geographic Products Inc., "this is because PDAger is the leader in wireless location based services in China, and Map4U providing self-positioning, POI search, map browse and routing services is the most popular wireless LBS application in China."
NAC Geographic Products Inc. will also work closely with Chinese governments and other corporations to digitize Beijing with the Universal Address System before the 2008 Olympic Games by marking all street signs and house number plates with local Universal Addresses, listing all businesses with their Universal Addresses on yellow pages, tourist brochures and websites, publishing street maps overlaid with the Universal Map Grids, and providing comprehensive location based services enhanced with Universal Addresses so that Beijing will be able to welcome all its guests for the Olympic Games with extraordinary convenience and efficiency for traveling in this ancient and modern city no matter whether they know Chinese or not.
A New Era for Using Accurate Location in the World
June 13, 2005 - CommunicAsia 2005 in Singapore - NAC Geographic Products Inc. has announced that the GPS and NAC enhanced wireless location based services application - Locamagic () has been released to Telus Mobility of Canada. This application is designed for all GPS cellphones to provide address management, locating, navigating, local business searching, cellphone tracking and friends' location monitoring services for more than 30 countries in North America, Europe, South America and Asia-Pacific region (the geographic data are provided by Microsoft MapPoint Web Service).
Using the GPS capability of the cellphone, the locating service of Locamagic provides the Universal Address (Natural Area Code) for every spot on the earth surface so that consumers can get accurate time and accurate location anywhere any time in the world. The Universal Address is a highly efficient representation of an accurate location (see ) with eight characters to the resolution of 30 meters and ten characters to the resolution of 1 meter, while longitude/latitude coordinates require more than 15 and 19 characters respectively. GPS technology makes accurate locations available everywhere, and the Universal Address makes accurate locations consumer-friendly: easy to remember, communicate, record, input and display. Just like the introduction of mechanical watches that started an era for using accurate time, the launch of Locamagic is to start a new era for using accurate locations in the world.
"With Locamagic running on their GPS cellphone, people will no longer need to look around for landmarks in order to answer the question: Where are you?" said Dr. Xinhang Shen, president of NAC Geographic Products Inc. "This is because they can directly read the Universal Address of their location anywhere in the world from Locamagic. It is the same as time that people can directly read from their watch without the need to check the position of the sun. The Universal Address System generates highly efficient, language independent, systematic and complete digital addresses for all locations in the world to meet the needs from the globalization and digitization."
With Locamagic, consumers can use the Universal Addresses to represent all the fixed locations in their daily activities: houses, buildings, gates, doors, stores, malls, restaurants, movie theaters, travel attractions, gas stations, bus stops, railway stations, docks, airports, street intersections, street lights, fire hydrants, sewage exits, electric wire poles, mines, wells, etc. They can also use the Universal Addresses to represent temporary locations such as: accidents, crimes, emergency sites, parking positions, dating/appointment places, camping sites, fishing spots, BBQ tables, park benches, archeological discoveries, and other temporary locations in the world.
Locamagic allows you to get Universal Addresses from street addresses, and also get nearby street addresses from Universal Addresses. Therefore, you will not get stuck if you don't know the Universal Address or the street address. You can use all kind of addresses (GPS location, Universal Addresses, street addresses, street intersections, postcodes/ZIP, points of interest and cities/towns) to specify locations and areas for locating, navigating and local business searching supported by detail location information, street maps, turn-by-turn driving directions, route maps, real-time navigating instructions, maps and lists of nearby businesses in all categories that a traveler needs. Using Universal Addresses instead of a street address on Locamagic can reduce 80% of key input, avoid difficulties in inputting foreign characters, eliminate errors from address databases, and extend the services to all locations no matter whether there are street addresses or not. It will also significantly reduce the cost and response time on Locamagic.
With your permission, the tracking service of Locamagic can show your current and past locations in real time on an interactive map on a desktop web browser that you friends and family can access anywhere in the world. This will be especially useful to track a child, senior, patient, taxi, truck, employee, animal, car, boat, airplane, skier, hiker, biker, or other moving object.
Its friends' monitoring service gives you even more power in monitoring multiple moving objects with accurate maps and lists on both your cellphone and desktop browsers so that you, your friends and your family can see the locations of all the monitoring objects: a group of people in driving, skiing, biking, hiking, piloting, boating, etc. It can also be used as a vehicle tracking service for tracking taxis, trucks, ships, airplanes, etc. For more information about Locamagic, please check or contact:
CONTACT Lixin Zhou PR Manager NAC Geographic Products Inc. Tel: +1 416 496 6110 Email: lzhou@nacgeo.com Web Site: NAC: 8CNJ Q8ZG
Does Microsoft Infringe the Natural Area Coding System?
February 9, 2005 - Toronto, Canada - NAC Geographic Products Inc. has noticed that Microsoft has filed a patent ( Compact text encoding of latitude/longitude coordinates ) that seems an infringement the Natural Area Coding System that was developed ten years ago by NAC Geographic Products Inc. We filed a patent application in United States on August 31, 1994 (Application No. 08/298,265) and an international patent application on August 31, 1995 (Application No. WO9607170). Since the Natural Area Coding System is such a large system that needs a long time to get accepted in the world, it was not practical to protect it using the patent laws. Therefore, we retreated the patent applications and turned it as a proprietary standard protected by the International Copyright Laws.
Now Microsoft files a patent application that employs the equivalent algorithm to convert the coordinates of longitude and latitude into non-negative integers and then uses a character set with exactly the same number of characters and the same character orders except the removal of letter "L" and the addition of letter "Y". If a code does not use any letters after "L", it will produce the same character strings as Universal Addresses. For example,
longitude: -127.8202
latitude: 3.436086111
Universal Address: 4BFGJ HK5DC
Microsoft's code: hk5dc4bfgj
The differences are only the order (we put longitude string first, and Microsoft puts latitude string first), the case (we use upper case letters, Microsoft uses lower case letters) and the removal of the space between two character strings.
During last ten years, NAC Geographic Products Inc. has made huge efforts and investment in developing and promoting the Natural Area Coding System and made it widely known and adopted in the world (see ). Now people from 20 countries in North America, Europe, Brazil and Australia can instantly get their Universal Addresses (eight or ten-character Natural Area Codes) on , and use the Universal Addresses to get turn-by-turn cross-nation, cross-language driving directions in 25 countries . People can even use the Universal Addresses and Natural Area Codes to access driving directions, maps and location based business searching in more than 20 countries on their wireless devices (). Instead of inputting more than 40 characters of traditional street addresses, people now can use only eight or ten-character Universal Addresses to specify any locations in the world, and two, four or six character Natural Area Codes to specify any areas on the earth surface for map retrieving and location based searching with a reduction of more than 80% of key input. Universal Addresses can be directly pinpointed on all kinds of maps with any projections provided that they have the Universal Map Grids because Universal Addresses are the grid coordinates of the Universal Map Grids. Since Universal Addresses are mathematically equivalent to geographic coordinates, they can also be directly displayed on all GPS devices (GPS Watches, GPS cellphones, handheld GPS, navigation systems, etc) for locating and navigation. If Universal Addresses are marked on street signs and house number plates, people can even find any locations represented by Universal Addresses without tourist guides, maps and other tools because the distance and direction between the destination Universal Address and the current Universal Address can be easily estimated by the differences of the characters of the two strings. Universal Addresses can help emergency services to quickly find all emergency locations because of its completion (no missing locations) and capability of being directly pinpointed on maps and displayed on GPS devices). With the help of Universal Addresses, tourists will never have troubles in interpreting the meaning of a foreign address, pronouncing a foreign address, and inputting an address in foreign characters into eletronic devices.
Now, the Global Postal Code System, the Universal Map Grid System and the Universal Property Identifier System have also been derived from the Natural Area Coding System.
Equipped with Universal Address enhanced GPS watches or GPS Cellphones, people will be able to use accurate spatial information as convenient as use accurate time for all their daily activities: finding addresses and temporary locations, recording accidents, communicating emergency locations, telling the locations of kids, etc. The widely use of Universal Addresses will start a new era for using accurate time and accurate location in the world.
All these are resulted from long time extreme hardship and numerous sleepless nights of the inventor/developer - Dr. Xinhang Shen, the founder of NAC Geographic Products Inc.
However, these achievements now are in a great danger as Microsoft files such a similar patent application. We will be difficult to defend our intellectual property because Microsoft has its tremendous power, money and influence.
The Natural Area Coding System
The Natural Area Coding System is a geodetic system to unify all geographic coordinates, area codes, addresses, postal codes, map grids and property identifiers in the world into a single efficient representation called Natural Area Codes. The Natural Area Coding System has also first in the world unified the concepts of geographic areas and geographic locations based on a simple fact: any geographic location is just a relatively small area, and use the same representation to represent both areas and locations anywhere in the world. Since the representations of current geographic coordinates are very inefficient (always require long character strings to represent locations and areas), the system has introduced 30 world's most popular characters (ten digits and twenty consonants: 0123456789BCDFGHJKLMNPQRSTVWXZ, the exclusion of vowels is to avoid the combinations becoming offensive words) and make a full use of these characters to compress the representations of locations and areas. The system divides the world into 30 equal divisions in both directions of longitude and latitude defined in World Geodetic Datum 1984 (WGS84) respectively to form the first level Natural Area Code (NAC) Grid, and then divide each cell into 30 equal divisions in both directions respectively to form the second level NAC Grid, and continue the same procedure to form the third, forth, fifth or other level NAC Grid. Each cell of the first level NAC Grid will be represented by two characters selected from the character set representing the cell's position on the grid in both directions. Similarly, each cell on the other level NAC Grid will be represented by four characters (on the second level), six characters (on the third level), eight characters (on the fourth level), ten characters (on the fifth level), etc. These cells represent approximately areas of 1200x750km, 40x25km, 1.3x0.8km, 40x25m, and 1.3x0.8m corresponding to cells represented by two, four, six, eight, and ten characters respectively. Since eight and ten character Natural Area Codes represent areas to the size of buildings, houses and doors, they are also called Universal Addresses that can be used as addresses to replace street addresses in many situations with great efficiency and accuracy. Therefore, Natural Area Codes can represent all areas and locations in the world.
As defined above, any given coordinates of longitude/latitude can be used to determine the cell of a NAC Grid of any level that contains the location as shown in the following procedure:
LONG = (Longitude + 180)/360
x1 = Integer part of( LONG*30)
x2 = Integer part of(( LONG*30-x1)*30)
x3 = Integer part of((( LONG*30-x1)*30-x2)*30)
x4 = Integer part of((((LONG*30-x1)*30-x2)*30-x3)*30)
...
LAT = (Latitude + 90)/180
y1 = Integer part of( LAT*30 )
y2 = Integer part of(( LAT*30-y1)*30)
y3 = Integer part of((( LAT*30-y1)*30-y2)*30)
y4 = Integer part of((((LAT*30-y1)*30-y2)*30-y3)*30)
...
where algorithm can be applied to any level NAC Grid; Longitude is in decimal degrees with positive in the eastern hemisphere and negative in the western; Latitude is in decimal degrees with positive in the northern hemisphere and negative in the southern; symbol * is the multiplication sign; x1, x2, x3, x4, ..., y1, y2, y3, y4, ... are integers ranging from 0 to 29 here.
Once x1, x2, x3, x4, ..., y1, y2, y3, y4, ... are calculated, the corresponding characters can be found from the following Table of the NAC character and integer correspondences: X1, X2, X3, X4, ..., Y1, Y2, Y3, Y4, ... Then, the Natural Area Code of the cell can be written as NAC: X1X2X3X4... Y1Y2Y3Y4... with a blank space between the two character strings. The first character string of a NAC represents longitude, and the second string represents latitude.
If the NAC of a cell is known, then the longitude and latitude of the southwestern corner of the cell can be calculated by the following procedure:
First, convert all characters X1, X2, X3, X4, ... Y1, Y2, Y3, Y4, into integers x1, x2, x3, x4, ... y1, y2, y3, y4, ... according to the Table of the NAC Character and Integer Correspondences.
Then use the following formulae to calculate coordinates:
Longitude = (x1/30+x2/30^2+x3/30^3+x4/30^4+...)*360-180
Latitude = (y1/30+y2/30^2+y3/30^3+y4/30^4+...)*180-90
The northeastern corner of the cell can be calculated by repeating the same procedure with the same integers except adding 1 to the integer corresponding to the last character of each string of the NAC. Then, the cell can be completely determined by the coordinates of these two geodetic points. Here is an example of NAC cells that contain the longitude/latitude coordinates of -122.12926 degrees and 47.64932 degrees respectively:
NAC: 4 Q
NAC: 4S QX
NAC: 4SN QX7
NAC: 4SN9 QX7C
NAC: 4SN94 QX7CX
Microsoft's Compact text encoding of latitude/longitude coordinates
Here is the summary of their invention
"[0006] Embodiments of the present invention pertain to a method for encoding latitude/longitude coordinates within a URL in a relatively compact form. The method includes converting latitude and longitude coordinates from floating-point numbers to non-negative integers. A set of base-N string representations are generated for the integers. (N represents the number of characters in an implementation-defined character set being utilized). The latitude string and longitude string are then concatenated to yield a single output string. The output string is utilized as a geographic indicator within a URL. To decode an output string to its corresponding latitude/longitude coordinates, the steps are inverted and performed in reverse order."
Here is Microsoft's character set:
0123456789bcdfghjkmnpqrstvwxyz (30 characters in the set)
Here is their conversion procedure:
M = ND - 1
where N is 30 and D is 5, so the resulting value of M is 24,299,999.
Valint = round[M*( Valfloat - Valmin)/( Valmax - Valmin)]
where Valint is the resulting integer value, Valfloat, is the floating-point value, Valmin is the minimum value of the floating-point range, and Valmax is the maximum value of the floating-point range. The term "round" represents the nearest integer value to the specified floating-point value, e.g. round(2.3) is 2, round(2.7) is 3. Also, it should be noted that all mathematical operations within the square brackets [0] in the equation are floating-point, i.e. not integer, operations. For latitude, Valmin is -90 and Valmax is +90. For longitude, these values are -180 and +180, respectively.
For example, a latitude of 47.64932 converts to the integer value of 18,582,657. A longitude of -122.12926 converts to the integer value of 3,906,275.
Then use the above character and integer corresponding table to convert the integers into base-N (i.e. base-30) notations (i.e. character strings). One of the latitude or longitude integers is set as an initial value (i.e., either 18,582,657 or 3,906,275 is set as the initial value). The initial value is divided by N (i.e., divided by 30). The character from the character set that corresponds to the value of the remainder is set as the first character in the base-N string notation. For example, if the remainder is "22", then the character "r", which is the 22nd character in the character set above, would be sent as the first character. Then, if the quotient is not greater than 0, the process ends and zeros are utilized to pad the base-N notation if necessary. Assuming the quotient is greater than zero, the quotient, without the remainder, is set as the next value. The character position is shifted to the next character position in the base-N notation. This process is repeated until the quotient is less than zero. The base-N notation is basically derived in this manner or with a process substantially similar thereto.
In the running example, using the character set outlined above, a latitude-based integer value of 18,582,657 converts to a base-N notation of ry7cx. A longitude-based integer value of 3,906,275 converts to 4tp95.
The last step is to concatenate latitude and longitude strings. The strings are concatenated to yield a single output value. In our running example, the encoded string resulting from the latitude/longitude coordinate would be "ry7cx4tp95".
In order to decode an encoded latitude/longitude string generated by this method (such as ry7cx4tp95 in the running example) to the originating latitude and longitude representations, the calculations are inverted and performed in reverse order.
Specifically, the string in base-N notation is divided into two sub-strings. Each base-N sub-string is converted into a base-10 sub-string. This can be accomplished by converting each character in the sub-string into its numbered position equivalent. For example, the character "d" is converted into "13". The lowest order number (lowest position in the sub-string) is multiplied by 300. The second lowest order number is multiplied by 301 and so fourth until the highest order number is multiplied by 304. The resulting products from these multiplications are summed to form an integer value. The process is repeated for each sub-string so that separate integer values are produced for latitude and longitude. That is:
Valint = x1*304 + x2*303 + x3*302 + x4*301 + x5*300
where x1, x2, ... are the integers corresponding to the characters in the string.
The integer values are converted into floating point numbers using the following formula:
Valfloat = Valint/M*(Valmax - Valmin) + Valmin
Comparison of the Two Methods
From the surface, these two methods seem different. But when you use mathematical manipulations, you can easily prove that the mathematical formulae are completely equivalent except that:
1) NAC uses the integer part and Microsoft uses rounding in handling the last integer of a character string.
2) The character and integer corresponding table are exact the same except that Microsoft removes "L" and adds "Y" and convert them into lower case.
3) NAC puts longitude string first and latitude string second with a space in between while Microsoft puts latitude string first and longitude string second without a space between.
Because of the high similarity, the two methods will generate exactly the same character strings if the employed characters are before "L" and the decimal parts are smaller than 0.5 in generating the last integers and can be rounded off. For the previous sample, we have
NAC: 4SN94 QX7CX
Microsoft: ry7cx4tp95
where the longitude string are: 4SN94 in NAC and 4tp95 in Microsoft. One difference is just the result of character shifting from "S" to "t", from "N" to "p" due to the removal of "L" in Microsoft's character table. The other difference is the last character "4" in NAC and "5" in Microsoft caused by the different rounding methods. Similarly in latitude string.
Remarks
On September 20, 2002, Dr. Xinhang Shen sent a proposal to Mr. Bill Gates of Microsoft to license the Natural Area Coding System, but he received a simple reply from Bill Gates Office that said "Microsoft has no interests in your NAC technology". The letter did not have any person's name and signature. At that time, we really didn't have much idea why Microsoft was not interested in our technology. Now as the publish of Microsoft's patent application, it seems clear why they refused us at that time. If somebody changes the name of Einstein's "The Theory of Narrow Relativity" into "Super Principle" and changes the symbol of the speed of light from "c" to "L", can he claims that he invents the "Super Principle"? Microsoft produces something that we think is an infringement of the Natural Area Coding System. Therefore, we are in a great danger now because Microsoft is so strong that millions times bigger than NAC Geographic Products Inc. We don't know how we can protect our interllectual property. In this world, money and power are often stronger than truth and justice. Because we will never have as much money as Microsoft to fight in the court, we hope that the media will be our last straw to clutch at and the public opinion will be our only moral power. We will greatly appreciate that all people loving truth and justice will support us to fight against Microsoft and protect the Natural Area Coding System. We welcome all kinds of suggestions and supports for this tough campaign, especially legal help related to the interllectual laws.
CONTACT
Lixin Zhou
PR Manager
NAC Geographic Products Inc.
1608-45 Huntingdale Blvd.
Toronto, ON M1W 2N8
Canada
NAC: 8CNJ Q8ZG
Tel: +1 416 496 6110
Email: lzhou@nacgeo.com
Web Site:
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Australia, Greece and Slovakia Have Been Digitized with Universal Addresses
November 15, 2004 - Toronto, Canada. NAC Geographic Products Inc. has announced that Australia, Greece and Slovakia have been added to the countries digitized with Universal Addresses and Natural Area Codes, and made the number of the Universal Address digitized countries to 22: Australia, Austria, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland (Uusimaa, Häme, and Pirkanmaa regions), France, Germany, Greece, Italy, Luxembourg, The Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Slovakia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, United Kingdom, and United States. About one billion people from these countries can immediately get their Universal Addresses on Universal Address Lookup Service (http://www.travelgis.com/geocode/), and access the highly efficient and reliable Universal Address powered cross-country cross-language turn-by-turn driving directions services on TravelGIS Driving Directions Service (http://www.travelgis.com/directions/) from their desktop computers. They can also use any kind of wireless devices to get turn-by-turn driving directions, maps and location based business searches in North America, Europe, Brazil and Australia powered by Universal Addresses on Mobile Location Based Services Network.
“Now another continent has been digitized by the Universal Address System thanks to Microsoft MapPoint Web Service that provides the world most comprehensive street address databases. Now about one billion people from four continents can directly benefit from the Universal Address System. On Universal Address powered location based services, people will no longer be frustrated by wrong locations of street addresses, unfound street addresses and locations without addresses as seen frequently on the driving directions/map services of MSN, Yahoo, MapQuest, etc,” said Dr. Xinhang Shen, President of NAC Geographic Products Inc., “because there are no Universal Addresses that can not be found, and there are no locations on this planet that don’t have Universal Addresses.” Using Universal Addresses to specify locations instead of traditional street addresses on location based services can reduce 80% of input characters, avoid difficulties in inputting addresses with foreign characters, eliminate errors from address databases and extend location based services to all locations no matter whether there are addresses or not. The 80% of reduction of input is significant in using wireless devices with small key pad to access location based services. The short Universal Addresses also make the enitire input interface of a driving directions service fit on a single screen of a small cellphone. A Universal Address is so short that can be included as part of an address on any business card.
The Universal Address System brings enormous benefits to the world. It has unified all addresses, geographic coordinates, area codes, postal codes, map grids, and property identifiers of the entire world. Now each of these codes can be represented by a single efficient Universal Address that connects the information from all kinds of location based services, maps, GPS receivers, navigation systems, courier and postal services, travel information systems, yellow pages, business directories, geographic information systems, as well as all other location related products and services, and makes them highly efficient, reliable and complete. Therefore, a new era for using accurate locations in all human activities is starting in the whole world, and people will use accurate location just like accurate time.
About NAC Geographic Products Inc.
NAC Geographic Products Inc. is a leading company in geographic technologies including GIS, GPS, Internet and wireless software development. In addition to the revolutionary NAC Technology, the company also has a variety of products and services including: WEBGIS, NACMAP, NACDRAW, web applications: MLBS.NET, TravelGIS.com, and NAC Real-Time Geocoding Service, NAC Real-Time Mapping Service, etc.
CONTACT
Lixin Zhou
Tel: +1 416 496 6110
Email: lzhou@nacgeo.com
Web Site: http://www.nacgeo.com
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Oil & Gas Industry Adopts the Universal Address System
August 27, 2004 - Toronto, Canada NAC Geographic Products Inc. and Zeitgeist Data Management, Inc. (ZDM) of United States have reached an agreement to license NAC Technology for ZDM's wellActivity.com - a well activity information system for the entire United States. This represents the start of NAC Technology deployed in the petroleum industry.
wellActivity.com provides an online searching service of a real time updated well permits database of the United States. The service allows users to search well permits by date, areas and business names, and provides maps and driving directions to the found wells. This service gives many businesses serving the petroleum industry the instant access of the information of the newly issued well permits. However, there is a challenge faced by ZDM: all wells are in the rural areas where there are no addresses; how can people identify and locate these individual wells? "We originally planned to use longitude/latitude coordinates to represent the locations of wells, but the long character strings of these coordinates are really difficult for people to remember and communicate. The variations in representing longitude and latitude add even more complexities in dealing with the user input," said Mr. Don Cayce - the Chief Technical Officer of ZDM, "The Universal Address System seems to provide a perfect solution to this problem. It makes the long geographic coordinates represented by codes as simple as postal codes. An eight character Universal Address can uniquely specify the location of any well in the world without the needs of country name, state name, and county name." As the licensing agreement is signed, ZDM will use Universal Addresses as well identifiers in its database and as addresses for users to specify locations for driving directions. ZDM will also implement the capability for users to use Natural Area Codes (NAC) to specify areas for location based searches.
NAC Technology introduces a highly efficient universal representation called Natural Area Code to unify the representations of all area codes, geographic coordinates, map grids, street addresses, postal codes and property identifiers of the world. An eight or ten character NAC (also called Universal Address) can uniquely specify every building, house, bus stop, parking meter, fire hydrant, street light, sewage exit, etc anywhere in the world. A six character NAC can specify every square kilometre area on the earth. A four character NAC can be used to represent every city size area in the world. Using NAC instead of street addresses and place names to specify locations and areas in all location applications can reduce 80% of input characters, avoid difficulties in inputting addresses with foreign characters, eliminate errors from address databases and extend geographic coverage to all locations and areas no matter whether there are addresses or not. Universal Addresses can also be directly displayed on GPS receivers, pinpointed on all maps , and can even be used as Global Postal Codes to sort all mail from the world level to final mailboxes automatically. They will be shown on all watches - time-space watches and become as important as accurate time for all human activities.
"It's another breakthrough for NAC Technology," said Xinhang Shen, President of NAC Geographic Products Inc., "and the first time that NAC Technology is to be implemented in petroleum industry. Enhanced with NAC Technology, ZDM's wellActivity.com will immediately become the leading information system in oil industry of the world with its universal interface, high efficiency, high reliability and complete coverage. It is another milestone for NAC Technology to be widely deployed in the commercial products and services."
About ZDM, Inc.
With the birth of wellActivity.com (ZDM's web presence) over two years ago our subscribers have discovered the convenience of "interactive web content". ZDM personnel, using high speed scanners, generate reports for Texas, Louisiana, New Mexico, Kansas, Arkansas, Federal Offshore, Montana, Mississippi, Wyoming, Colorado & Oklahoma the same day the information is released. Our series of reports answer the following important questions for our clients
Who is drilling, What they are drilling for & Where they are drilling
Who are the newly registered operators
Who are the most active operators
What are the hottest areas
How to get to the well site with complete and accurate directions
The wellActivity set of reports allow our clients to follow drilling activities in their area-of-interest and leverage that knowledge with their experience to build a more profitable sales organization.
Contact
Don Cayce
CEO of ZDM, Inc.
Austin & Ft Worth Texas
512.692.9109
don.cayce@wellactivity.com
www.wellactivity.com
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Brazil has been Digitized with Universal Addresses
May 26, 2004 - Toronto, Canada. NAC Geographic Products Inc. has announced that Brazil has become the first country in South America that has been completely digitized with Universal Addresses and Natural Area Codes, and made the number of the Universal Address digitized countries to 19: Austria, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland (Uusimaa, Häme, and Pirkanmaa regions), France, Germany, Italy, Luxembourg, The Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, United Kingdom, and United States. More than 890 million people from these countries can immediately get their Universal Addresses on Universal Address Lookup Service (http://www.travelgis.com/geocode/) , and access the highly efficient and reliable Universal Address powered cross-country cross-language turn-by-turn driving directions services on TravelGIS Driving Directions Service (http://www.travelgis.com/directions/) from their desktop computers. They can also use any kind of wireless devices to get turn-by-turn driving directions, maps and location based business searches powered by Universal Addresses on Mobile Location Based Services Network.
“This is another breakthrough for the Universal Address System thanks to Microsoft MapPoint Web Service that provides the world most comprehensive street address databases. Now about one billion people from three continents can directly benefit from the Universal Address System. On Universal Address powered location based services, people will no longer be frustrated by wrong locations of street addresses, unfound street addresses and locations without addresses as seen frequently on the driving directions/map services of MSN, Yahoo, MapQuest, etc,” said Dr. Xinhang Shen, President of NAC Geographic Products Inc., “because there are no Universal Addresses that can not be found, and there are no locations on this planet that don’t have Universal Addresses.” Using Universal Addresses to specify locations instead of traditional street addresses on location based services can reduce 80% of input characters, avoid difficulties in inputting addresses with foreign characters, eliminate errors from address databases and extend location based services to all locations no matter whether there are addresses or not. The 80% of reduction of input is significant in using wireless devices with small key pad to access location based services.
The Universal Address System brings enormous benefits to the world. It has unified the complicated addresses, the geographic coordinates, the area codes, the postal codes, the map grids, and the property identifiers of the entire world. Now all these codes can be represented by a single efficient Universal Address that connects the information from all kinds of location based services, maps, GPS receivers, navigation systems, courier and postal services, travel information systems, yellow pages, business directories, geographic information systems, as well as all other location related products and services, and makes them highly efficient, reliable and complete.
About NAC Geographic Products Inc.
NAC Geographic Products Inc. is a leading company in geographic technologies including GIS, GPS, Internet and wireless software development. In addition to the revolutionary NAC Technology, the company also has a variety of products and services including: WEBGIS, NACMAP, NACDRAW, web applications: MLBS.NET, TravelGIS.com, and NAC Real-Time Geocoding Service, NAC Real-Time Mapping Service, etc.
CONTACT
Lixin Zhou
Tel: +1 416 496 6110
Email: lzhou@nacgeo.com
Web Site: http://www.nacgeo.com
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