Geocodes

An airport code is an short code used to identify a specific airport. There are two international systems used: ...more on Wikipedia about "Airport code"

The Argentine postal code is a system that assigns at least an unique alphanumeric postal codes to each municipality. Some larger cities have several codes starting at a base code, and the codes of all municipalities with a population over 500 additionally show the side of the block where the address is located. ...more on Wikipedia about "Argentine postal code"

Chapman codes are largely a superset of the ISO 3166-2:GB and BS 6879 codes identifying administrative divisions in the United Kingdom, Ireland and their surrounding islands, but covering historical divisions. They are widely used in genealogy. ...more on Wikipedia about "Chapman code"

Country codes are short alphabetic or numeric geographical codes ( geocodes) developed to represent countries and dependent areas, for use in data processing and communications. Several different systems have been developed to do this. The most famous of these is ISO 3166-1. ...more on Wikipedia about "Country code"

Federal Information Processing Standard (FIPS) two-letter country codes (FIPS 10-4) are used by the US Government for data processing, and in the CIA World Factbook. They are similar but not the same as ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country codes. ...more on Wikipedia about "FIPS 10-4"

The FIPS county code is a five-digit Federal Information Processing Standard (FIPS) code ( FIPS 6-4 ) which uniquely identifies counties and county equivalents in the United States, certain U.S. possessions, and certain freely associated states. The first two digits are the FIPS state code and the last three are the county code within the state or possession. ...more on Wikipedia about "FIPS county code"

FIPS place codes are a U.S. Federal Information Processing Standard for geographic coding of human settlements in the United States. They are used in Geographic Information Systems (GIS), and are also used in this encyclopedia. ...more on Wikipedia about "FIPS place code" Pure www.shortopedia.com. Pure Information Power. Geocodes

A two-digit Federal Information Processing Standard (FIPS) code (FIPS 5-2) uniquely identifies a state, territory, or commonwealth within or of the U.S.. These codes are used by the U.S. Census Bureau, by the Department of Agriculture to form milk-processing plant numbers, and in the Emergency Alert System, and were assigned by NIST. Additional numbers used with the EAS for territorial waters of the U.S. were assigned by the FCC, but are not part of the FIPS standard. Two-letter state codes are used as postal abbreviations by the USPS with the exception of UM which it does not use. The various minor outlying islands have a second two digit code besides the one used for them as a group. ...more on Wikipedia about "FIPS state code"

A geocode is a geographical code to identify a point or area at the surface of the earth. ...more on Wikipedia about "Geocode"

Geocoding is the process of assigning geographic coordinates (e.g. latitude- longitude) to street addresses, as well as other points and features. With geographic coordinates, the features can then be mapped and entered into Geographic Information Systems. ...more on Wikipedia about "Geocoding"

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

A geographic coordinate system expresses every horizontal position on Earth by two of the three coordinates of a spherical coordinate system which is aligned with the spin axis of Earth. Borrowing from theories of ancient Babylonians, later expanded by the famous Greek thinker and geographer Ptolemy, a full circle is assigned 360 degrees (360°). ...more on Wikipedia about "Geographic coordinate system"

An IATA airport code, also known an IATA location identifier or simply a location identifier ** , is a three-letter alphabetic code designating many airports around the world. These codes are defined by the International Air Transport Association (IATA). The IATA airport codes are published tri-annually in the IATA Airline Coding Directory. The assignment of these codes is governed by IATA Resolution 767, and it is administered by IATA headquarters in Montreal. IATA also provides codes for railway stations and for airport handling entities. ...more on Wikipedia about "IATA airport code"

The ICAO airport code is a four-letter alphanumeric code designating each airport around the world. These codes are defined by the International Civil Aviation Organization. The ICAO codes are used by air traffic control and airline operations such as flight planning. They are not the same as the IATA codes encountered by the general public, which are used for airline timetables, reservations, and baggage handling. ICAO codes are also used to identify other locations such as weather stations, International Flight Service Stations or Area Control Centers, whether or not they are located at airports. ...more on Wikipedia about "ICAO airport code"

This is a list of FIPS 10-4 region codes, using a standardized name format, and cross-linking to articles. ...more on Wikipedia about "List of FIPS region codes"

* Amtrak out of Newark Liberty International Airport in Newark, New Jersey, United States (near New York, New York) See Also: List of Amtrak station codes. ...more on Wikipedia about "List of IATA-indexed train stations"

(List of postal codes) * 9: Digits. ...more on Wikipedia about "List of postal codes"

* Ireland: no use of postal codes except for the Dublin postal district codes ...more on Wikipedia about "Lists of postal codes"

Maritime identification digits are used by ship-to-shore radiocommunication facilities to identify their home country or base area in digital selective calling messages. The International Telecommunication Union facilitates the assignment of MID's to countries. This is a comprehensive list of MID's that each country around the world uses. ...more on Wikipedia about "Maritime identification digits"

The Natural Area Code is a proprietary geocode system for identifying an area anywhere on the Earth, or a volume of space anywhere around the Earth. The use of thirty alphanumeric characters instead of only ten digits makes a NAC shorter than its numerical latitude/longitude[/altitude] equivalent. ...more on Wikipedia about "Natural Area Code"

The Office for National Statistics coding system is a hierarchical code used in the United Kingdom for tabulating census and other statistical data. ...more on Wikipedia about "ONS coding system"

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A postal code is a series of letters and/or digits appended to a postal address for the purpose of sorting mail. ...more on Wikipedia about "Postal code"

A PIN or Pincode is the post office numbering or post code system used by the Indian Postal Service. PIN stands for Postal Index Number and the code is 6 digits long. ...more on Wikipedia about "Postal Index Number"

A Transverse Mercator projection is an adaptation of the Mercator projection. Both projections are cylindrical and conformal . However, in a Transverse Mercator projection, the cylinder is rotated 90° (transverse) relative to the equator so that projected surface is aligned with a meridian (or line of longitude) rather than the equator, as is the case with the regular Mercator projection. ...more on Wikipedia about "Transverse Mercator projection"

UN Location Codes consist of 5 characters. The first two are for Country while the other three are for defining the location. ...more on Wikipedia about "Un location codes"

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