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Encyclopedia > Geographic coding scheme

A geographic coding scheme generates codes for human-created geographical entities such as countries, counties, towns, airports, and so on.


Postal codes are examples of a fine-grained geographic coding schemes capable of resolving down to a single building or group of buildings.


ISO standards:

  • ISO 3166, including
    • ISO 3166-1 country codes

United Nations standards:

IATA standards:

U.S. Government standards:


See also:

External links

  • http://geonames.usgs.gov/index.html
  • http://www.nima.mil/gns/html/index.html

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Wikipedia:Geographic references - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (578 words)
The data are indexed by state, county, and place FIPS codes.
The data contain information on a wide range of geographic features such as populated places, rivers, mountains, certain buildings, etc. The data provided include geographic coordinates, elevation at the point, population (if applicable), and the FIPS codes for the state and county containing the feature (but not the feature itself).
The system describes the codes and the relationships between different entities, such as the part of relationship between a U.S. state and a county.
Geocode - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (239 words)
A geocode is a geographical code to identify a point or area at the surface of the earth.
Some of these code systems are free for use, others have different licences.
Geographic coordinate system with longitude / latitude, point system, with span it is an area system, free
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