GEOCODE is a standardized all-natural number representation format specification for geospatial coordinate measurements that provide details of the exact location of geospatial point at, below, or above the surface of the earth at a specified moment of time.

Geocode is patented under US Patents 6,681,231, approved July 26, 2003, and 7,107,286, approved May 4, 2006. Geocode is also a registered US Federal trademark, US Registration Number 3182988, approved December 12, 2006.

Geocode is a federally registered copyrighted computer software program, US Registration Number TX-6-603-127, dated July 26, 1999.

Attributes

A Geocode representation format is a combination of some or all of the following geospatial attributes:

• Geocode Format Registry Number,
• Latitude
  Latitude
  In geography, the latitude of a location on the Earth is the angular distance of that location south or north of the Equator. The latitude is an angle, and is usually measured in degrees . The equator has a latitude of 0°, the North pole has a latitude of 90° north , and the South pole has a...
  
  
• Longitude
  Longitude
  Longitude is a geographic coordinate that specifies the east-west position of a point on the Earth's surface. It is an angular measurement, usually expressed in degrees, minutes and seconds, and denoted by the Greek letter lambda ....
  
  
• Altitude
  Altitude
  Altitude or height is defined based on the context in which it is used . As a general definition, altitude is a distance measurement, usually in the vertical or "up" direction, between a reference datum and a point or object. The reference datum also often varies according to the context...
  
  
• Date
• Local Time
• Global Time in Coordinated Universal Time
  Coordinated Universal Time
  Coordinated Universal Time is the primary time standard by which the world regulates clocks and time. It is one of several closely related successors to Greenwich Mean Time. Computer servers, online services and other entities that rely on having a universally accepted time use UTC for that purpose...
  
   (UTC) Format
• Coordinate Reference System - (Coordinate Reference System Type Registry Number - IS0 19115)
• Geodetic Reference Ellipsoid, Registry Number, Geodetic Reference Datum Registry Number, Coordinate Format Registration Number - ISO 19145)
• Coordinate Sensor Accuracy for Latitude, Longitude and/or Altitude
• Internet Protocol Version 4 (IPv4
  IPv4
  Internet Protocol version 4 is the fourth revision in the development of the Internet Protocol and the first version of the protocol to be widely deployed. Together with IPv6, it is at the core of standards-based internetworking methods of the Internet...
  
  ) Address or Internet Protocol, Version 6 (IPv6
  IPv6
  Internet Protocol version 6 is a version of the Internet Protocol . It is designed to succeed the Internet Protocol version 4...
  
  ) Address in Compressed, Uncompressed or Fully Uncompressed Decimal Format
• Other Geospatial Attributes

Mandatory attributes included in the Geocode representation format are Latitude or Longitude and other measurement representations. All other attributes are voluntary.