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
(http://mlbs.net/).
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, 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
www.nacgeo.com
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