A Universal Address Enhanced Google Maps for Palm Pre
Written by NAC Geographic Products Inc.
Monday, 10 August 2009
August 10, 2009, Toronto, Canada, NAC Geographic Products Inc.
announced that 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
With a Palm Pre on hand, no matter where you are, you can open all the free web applications: NAC Locator, NAC Local and NAC Directions
to get street maps, high resolution satellite images, local business
searching and turn-by-turn driving/walking directions to all locations
in all countries and areas covered by Google Maps, no matter whether
there are street addresses or not (houses, buildings, accident
locations, camping sites, fishing spots or locations of countries
without street addresses at all) and no matter how difficult it is to
input the street addresses because of foreign scripts. This is because
the Universal Address is able to efficiently, language independently and reliably specify any location in the world.
You can get the Universal Address of any business in the world on
NAC Local provided that it can be found on Google Local Search, and
find the Universal Address of any location in the world on the
satellite image maps on NAC Locator which allows you to recenter, pan
and zoom the map and then gives you the Universal Address of the map
center immediately.
"This is a breakthrough for people in countries without well
established street addresses such as the United Arabia Emerates, Ghana,
Mongolia and Nigeria and countries with vast duplicated addresses such
as Ireland to get all the location based services," said Dr. Xinhang
Shen, president of NAC Geographic Products Inc. "This will also become
a great tool for tourists travelling in Hong Kong, Taiwan, Japan,
Korea, Russia, Thailand, Vietnames and India where the addresses are
either in difficult scripts or irregularly located."
Although Google Maps provides street maps, satellite image maps,
local business searching, turn-by-turn driving and walking directions
services in many countries in the world, it only allows users to
specify locations with street addresses or latitude/longitude
coordinates while street addresses have many problems:
Many countries don't have street addresses;
Street addresses are language dependent and very difficult for foreign people to input;
More than 99% of locations in the world such as accident locations don't have street addresses;
Street addresses are also full of variations, often duplicated in
multiple locations, frequently changed or too new to be included in the
databases;
Even street addresses are available, they are always very long and not efficient to input.
Though a pair of latitude/longitude coordinates is able to specify any location in the world, they have problems too:
They require too many digits to specify locations accurate to houses or buildings;
They may produce large errors if their geodetic datums are not known;
They are also written with many different formats.
All
these make latitude/longitude coordinates nearly useless to consumers
and that's why nobody uses them as their home addresses in their daily
lives.
All these seriously restrict the uses of Google Maps. Now these
problems are solved by the introduction of the capability of the
Universal Addresses in NAC Locator which allows users to efficiently,
language independently and reliably specify any location in the world
because:
All locations including houses and buildings in the world have their unique Universal Addresses;
Universal Addresses are language independent and easy to input;
Universal Addresses are highly efficient (50% shorter than
latitude/longitude coordinates and 80% shorter than a typical street
address);
Universal Addresses are standard without variations;
Universal Addresses never change and are never outdated;
Universal Addresses are mathematically equivalent to longitude/latitude, do not need geocoding and don't rely on any databases;
Universal Addresses can be directly measured with GPS receivers and pinpoited on all maps with Universal Map Grids;
If you have a business trip to Dubai where street addresses are not
available, you can ask your travel agency to give you the Universal
Addresses of all your interested locations which they can obtain on NAC Locator too. With the Universal Addresses, you can get all the location based services there as easily as in any other country.
If you put your Universal Address on all your business cards,
websites and advertisements and list it on Yellow Pages, it will
significantly help your customers and friends find you with any
Universal Address enhanced location based services such as NAC Locator
and navigation systems such as NAC Enhanced Blackberry Maps
as it can help them save 80% of key input, eliminate errors caused by
duplicated street addresses, new addresses, outdated addresses and
missing addresses and avoid difficulty in inputting addresses with
foreign scripts.
Now with a Palm Pre handset, people can easily retrieve a map,
make a local business search or get turn-by-turn driving/walking
directions everywhere in the world without worries from the problems of
street addresses.
About NAC Geographic Products Inc.
Incorporated in 1995 in Toronto, Canada, NAC Geographic Products Inc.
is a world's leading company in geographic technologies. In addition to
the Natural Area Coding System, the company has developed many
important GIS software products and provides real-time geo-services
(geocoding, reverse-geocoding, mapping, driving directions, nearby
business searching and traffic information) for web applications and wireless location based services for consumers as well as consulting services.
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