About the extremely useful geocode system for everybody in the world

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From: SHEN XINHANG
Date: Fri, 25 Nov 1994 16:24

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In article <3b2gn6$1aa@sun.lclark.edu>,
John Miller <miller@sun.lclark.edu> wrote:
>trebla@io.org (Albert Y.C. Lai) writes:
>
>>miller@sun.lclark.edu (John Miller) wrote:
>>>
>>> For example, since 75% of the earth is covered with water, aren't you
>>> wasting a lot of code-space?
>>
>>Who says that we won't be living in remote deep seas in the future? :)
>
>I know I won't be!  However, most all such inhabitants would probably get
>there via some oceanic pipeline(s) such as the chunnel. ;^)
>
>Seriously, I have re-thought my original comment.  Coding systems can waste
>a fair amount of namespace as long as they do the job. If they waste too much
>space OR if they don't get the job done, then they will be a burden to use.
> ....

It is the way to save but not waste codes if a geocode system includes the large
area of ocean and deserts since having no discriminations or least restrictions
posted on a geocode system can greatly help the compression of the code length.
Just because of this, the natural area coding system can create a geocode to
represent each area less than 25x50 meters all over the world.

Xinhang Shen

shen@ecf.toronto.ca

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From: shen@ecf.toronto.edu (SHEN  XINHANG)
Subject: About the extremely useful geocode system for everybody in the world
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