NAC Geographic Products Has Integrated Universal Address into Google Local Search

The NAC Enhanced Google Local Search is designed to integrate the Natural Area Coding System with Google Local Search through the Google AJAX (Asynchronous JavaScript and XML) Search API. NAC Geographic Products Inc. has announced through a press release the launching of the NAC Enhanced Google Local Search, enabling users to search locations via Natural Area Code (NAC).

"The integration of NAC with Google Local Search produces a real worldwide local search engine that can work anywhere in the world," explained Dr. Xinhang Shen, president of NAC Geographic Products Inc., "that has overcome the limitations of traditional address based specification of locations, such as inputting traditional addresses of foreign characters or specifying locations without traditional addresses." Using a Universal Address instead of a street address to specify a location on a local search can also reduce 80% of key input and eliminate the needs of address databases that frequently produce outdated matches, no matches, duplicated matches, wrong matches, etc.

As an example, "8KDC PGFC" is the Universal Address(eight-character or a ten-character NAC with the resolution of a traditional address) of the Washington Monument.

"A NAC can represent any area or location in the world. A two-character NAC represents an area about 1000km X 700km (like a province), a four-character NAC represents an area about 33km X 23km (like a city), a six-character NAC roughly represents every square kilometer area, an eight-character NAC represents an area about 35m X 25m (like a building), and a ten-character NAC approximately represents every square meter on the earth surface," revealed the Canadian company.