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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
• 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

• GIS
• Geographic coordinate system