NAC Enhanced Google Maps - A Universal Address Locator
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1. Your Digital Universal Address
With the NAC Enhanced Google Maps, you can otain the Universal Address (i.e the eight or ten character NAC) of any location in the world instantly, and can also immediately retrieve the map of any Universal Address. The Universal Address is the standard, efficient and language independent location signature for any location in the world. Therefore, it will greatly help your friends and customers to get to your location if you include it on your business cards such as:  advertisements, web pages, emails, or news reports such as: "A school bus collided with a Canadian Pacific Railway truck yesterday (2006-10-17) about 13 kilometers west of Regina, SK, Canada (NAC: 688S RDBD)." (you can see how convenient it is no matter it is published on a web page or a printed newspaper.) 2. Get the Map of a NAC Put a NAC into the URL such as: http://www.travelgis.com/map.asp?addr=8KDB PGFD or input it in the Location box and click "Get Map". 3. Get the NAC of a Location Use the mouse to pan and/or zoom the map to the area and click the location of interest to get its NAC on both the top and bottom of the map ( the NAC of the center will be displayed when the cursor is not on the map). Currently, this page provides high-resolution satellite images for most urban areas in Canada and the United States (including Hawaii, Alaska, Puerto Rico, and the U.S. Virgin Islands) as well as parts of New Zealand, Australia, Egypt, France, Germany, Iran, Iceland, Italy, Iraq, Japan, the Bahamas, Bermuda, Kuwait, Mexico, the Netherlands, the United Kingdom, and many other countries, and many cities including Moscow, Istanbul, and also most of India. It also provides maps of:
4. Get the NAC of a Street Address Input a street address into the Location box and click "Get Map" which will show the NAC on both the top and bottom of the map which is centered at the street address. Note, country name if other than US should be included in the address. Currently, it supports addresses from Australia, Belgium, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Netherlands, New Zealand, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, United States of America and the Vatican City. |
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Frequently Used NACs and Universal Addresses
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About NAC and Universal Address A Natural Area Code (NAC) can represent both an area or a location anywhere in the world. A two, four, six, eight or ten character NAC represents respectively an area about 1000km X 700km (like a province), 33km X 23km (like a city), one square kilometer (like a street block), 35m X 25m (like a building) or one square meter anywhere in the world. Since an eight or ten character NAC has reached the resolution of a traditional address, it is also called a Universal Address, for example, NAC: 8KDB PGFD is the Universal Address of Washington Monument. Using a NAC instead of a traditional address to specify a location can reduce 80% of key input, avoid difficulties in inputting addresses with foreign characters, eliminate the needs of address databases and specify all locations no matter whether there are traditional addresses or not. A group of neighboring NACs can be combined into one NAC such as: 8C Q8 plus 8D Q8 plus 8F Q8 can be written as 8C-F Q8. If the character after the hyphen represents a number smaller than the character before the hyphen, it means a rotation, e.g., 8CX-2 Q8S represents 8CX Q8S plus 8CZ Q8S plus 8D1 Q8S plus 8D2 Q8S (note there are no vowels: A, E, I, O, U, Y in any NAC). A NAC like 8C0-Z Q8D can be simplified to 8C Q8D. Therefore, a NAC can be used to represent various rectangular areas anywhere in the world. To show the location of a NAC, use http://www.travelgis.com/map.asp?addr=8KD7 PGGM (White House). To find nearby businesses, use http://www.travelgis.com/local.asp?keywords=gas station&addr=8CFC PGFC. |
Note: Natural Area Code, NAC and Universal Address are trade marks of NAC Geographic Products Inc.
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