Frustrated with your telling your friends your exact GPS coordinates? Well enter NAC Geographic Products whose Natural Area Coding System makes describing your global location as easy as writing down your postcode in east london.
"Recently, GPS chips have become so small that can fit into almost all electronic devices such as watches, cameras, cellphones, so cheap (below $10) that almost all people can afford. With this technology break-through, digitizing the entire earth now becomes non-fiction." But when "you examine the display of a GPS receiver, you will realize the problem. When a pair of geographic coordinates in longitude/latitude go to the resolution of individual addresses, it will require more than 20 characters that are nearly impossible for general consumers to remember, and also difficult to communicate. " The Natural Area Coding System is a new system to standardize and integrate geodetic datums, geographic coordinates, geographic area codes, map grids, addresses and postal codes in the world. People are already using GPS to provide locations to photographs that they upload to their website using mobile phone cameras. This woman from tokyo uses browser frames to display the photo, the GPS information and the map at the same time.
