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.

• 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 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;