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Applications
The Natural Area Coding System is such a powerful system that can be used
to enhance all geographic related technologies, products and services. Here
is a list of some applications enhanced by the Natural Area Coding System:
- NAC Sorter - Sorting All Mail In The World Automatically
NAC Mail Sorter makes it not only possible but also very simple to sort all mail pieces and parcels in any sorting
center in the world automatically from the world level to final households no matter whether they are demestic or
international, thanks to the introduction of the Universal Address as a new element of all addresses in the world.
- NAC and GPS Enhanced Google Maps for iPhones
NACMaps now is launched for HTML5 web browsers of smartphones, especially iPhones.
- NAC and GPS Enhanced Google Maps for Desktop Browser
NACMaps now is launched for HTML5 web browsers of desktop computers.
- NAC and GPS Enhanced Google Maps for Android Handsets
NAC and GPS Enhanced Google Maps called NACMaps now is available as downloadable application to all Android handsets.
- NACMaps for Google Mobile Maps on Palm's webOS Handsets
NACMaps is a NAC enhancement for Google Mobile Maps on Palm's webOS handsets and makes Google Maps Mobile work everywhere in all its covered
geographic areas thanks to the power of Universal Address i.e. Natural Area Code (NAC) which is able to
specify any location in the world efficiently and language independently.
- NAC Locator for Palm Pre
NAC Locator - a customized NAC enhanced Google Maps for mobile devices now runs on the world's most
powerful mobile OS - webOS of Palm Pre handsets to provide maps, satellite images, local searches
and turn-by-turn driving/walking directions to all locations no matter whether there are street
addresses or not.
- NACMaps for Blackberry Maps
NACMaps is a NAC enhancement for Blackberry Maps and makes Blackberry Maps work everywhere in all its covered
geographic areas thanks to the power of Universal Address i.e. Natural Area Code (NAC) which is able to
specify any location in the world efficiently and language independently.
- NACAddIn for MapPoint 2009
NACAddIn is a powerful complement to MapPoint 2009 desktop software and makes the software work for all
locations in the world no matter whether they have street addresses or not thanks to the new capability of
handling Universal Addresses brought by NACAddIn.
- NAC Enhanced Mobile GMaps
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.
- NAC Google - Desktop Gadget of NAC Enhanced Google Maps, Local Search and Driving Directions
NAC Google is a simple but very powerful desktop
gadget that has integrated NAC Enhanced Google Maps, Google Local Search and Google Driving
Directions into one simple user interface on the Google Desktop Sidebar. Therefore, users can immediately
get any of these services with Universal Addresses, lat/lon pairs, street addresses, street intersections,
POIs, postcodes/ZIPs, etc.
- NAC Earth - A NAC Enhanced Google Earth
NAC Earth provides 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.
- NAC Smart Tag for Microsoft Office
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.
Readers can simply click a smart tag to get the high-resolution satellite image showing its exact
location without the help of other software.
- NAC Enhanced Google Maps
With the NAC Enhanced Google Maps, everybody can otain the Natural Area Code (NAC) of any area and the
Universal Address (i.e the eight or ten character NAC) of any location in the world instantly.
Everybody can also get the local map corresponding to any NAC including Universal Address immediately.
Thus, it is the time to use the NAC as the standard, efficient and language independent location signature
to specify any area or location in the world for any publications: web pages, emails, newspapers, etc.
A news report including the NAC 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)" can greatly
help readers find the exact location on the NAC Enhanced Google Maps.
- NAC Enhanced Google Local Search
Google Local Search is a powerful search engine, but it becomes difficult in specifying locations in other countries
with different languages and characters or locations without street addresses such as street lights, parking spots,
camping sites, etc. NAC Enhanced Google Local Search has solved this problem by introducing Universal Addresses and
Natural Area Codes that can be used to specify any locations and areas in the world with efficiency (a reduction of 80%
of characters), completion (no missing locations and areas) and universality (independent of any languages).
- NAC Enhanced Google Driving Directions
With the NAC Enhanced Google Driving Directions, users now can easily use Universal Addresses to specify
start, end and stop locations anywhere in the world to get their driving directions and route maps thanks
to the Google's comprehensive geographic data for Australia, Belgium, Canada, France, Germany, Italy,
Spain, USA, etc. Drivers now have no worries about inputting street addresses with foreign characters
which are especially popular in Europe where a few hour driving can cross many language zones to get
cross-country directions and route maps. Outdoor lovers now are able to specify the locations without
street addresses such as camping sites, fishing spots, emergency locations, etc.
- Locamagic - A Wireless Location Services Suite for GPS Cellphones
Locamagic provides almost all kinds of location based services you may need: address management, locating,
navigating, business searching, tracking and friends monitoring for more than 30 countries in North America,
South America, Europe and Asia Pacific region, supported by accurate location, heading and speed from GPS,
detail street information, local street maps, turn-by-turn driving instructions, route maps, real-time
navigating instructions, and detail business and facility information in all categories.
- TravelGIS Driving Directions Service
This is the world most comprehensive and efficient location based services web application for desktop computers
powered by NAC Technology and Microsoft MapPoint Web Service. It provides continuous cross-nation cross-language
turn-by-turn driving directions for 26 countries. In addition to using street addresses, street intersections,
points of interest, ZIP/postal codes and place names to specify locations and areas, it allows users to use
Universal Addresses and Natural Area Codes that can
- reduce 80% of input keys
- avoid difficulties in inputting addresses with foreign characters
- eliminate errors from address databases
- extend location based services to all locations and areas no matter whether there are addresses or not
- Mobile Location Based Services Network (MLBS.NET)
This is the world most comprehensive and efficient location based services web application for all wireless devices
powered by NAC Technology and Microsoft MapPoint Web Service. It provides continuous cross-nation cross-language
turn-by-turn driving directions, maps and location based searches of hotels, restaurants, gas stations, parking places,
car rentals, movie theaters and amusement places for 26 countries in eight languages: Dutch, English, French, German,
italian, portuguese, spanish and swedish. In addition to using street addresses, street intersections,
points of interest, ZIP/postal codes and place names to specify locations and areas, MLBS.NET allows users to use
Universal Addresses and Natural Area Codes that can
- reduce 80% of input keys
- avoid difficulties in inputting addresses with foreign characters
- eliminate errors from address databases
- extend location based services to all locations and areas no matter whether there are addresses or not
These features are significant for wireless devices which have very small screens and limited keys.
- The Universal Address Lookup System
This free Universal Address lookup system lets you find out the corresponding Universal Address of any address in
Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Spain, United Kingdom and United States, displays the address on an interactive map.
- The World Map Server
This free map server provides millions of accurate interactive maps of the world and individual countries organized by
themes, layers and stores. You can retrieve any maps from the map server with map store names, map themes, map layers,
described by the area names, longitude/latitude coordinates and the Natural Area Codes. The interactive maps simultaneously
display the screen coordinates, longitude/latitude coordinates, UTM coordinates and NAC as well as geomagnetic parameters
of the entire world as you move the cursor on the maps. You can also qury any map object on the maps, zoom in/out the maps
continuously with your mouse. You can switch on/off the NAC grids on the maps whenever you want. This map server is compliant to
Open GIS Web Map Service Specifications.
- Free Online Mapping Service
This free mapping services not only allows you to create any maps with your data of icons, labels, polylines, polygons,
circles, rectangles, ellipses, arcs, images, hyperlinks, etc arranged as multiple layers on top of the base maps provided
by the service selected from millions of map stores, themes and layers. All the user's map objects can be in different colors,
fonts, font styles, line thickness, line styles, filling patterns, and many other properties. Once you have created your accurately maps with
your own data, you can save or print the maps for your private or commercial uses. All your geographic data can be provided
in screen coordinates, longitude/latitude coordinates, UTM coordinates or NACs. The map objects in the screen coordinates will
stay on the screen statically while other map objects will move and be stretched when the map is zoomed in or out.
- The Global Vehicle Tracking System
This web service allows users to track any number of vehicles in the world in real time. It can refresh the vehicle locations
every second. Users can also add any number of other information on top of the maps. All the tracking data will be kept on the
web site's database and can be downloaded whenever the user wants. Moreover, any people in the world can share the real time
vehicle locations on tables and interactive maps simultaneously if the user gives the permission to them.
- Online NAC Converter
This free online NAC converter allows users to convert the geographic coordinates among NAC, longitude/latitude, and UTM.
The longitude/latitude can be in decimal degrees, degrees plus decimal minutes, and degrees plus minutes plus decimal seconds.
The UTM coordinates can be in meters or feet.
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