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  2. Address geocoding - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Address_geocoding

    Address geocoding, or simply geocoding, is the process of taking a text-based description of a location, such as an address or the name of a place, and returning geographic coordinates, frequently latitude/longitude pair, to identify a location on the Earth's surface. [1]

  3. Reverse geocoding - Wikipedia

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    Reverse geocoding is the process of converting a location as described by geographic coordinates (latitude, longitude) to a human-readable address or place name. It is the opposite of forward geocoding (often referred to as address geocoding or simply "geocoding"), hence the term reverse. Reverse geocoding permits the identification of nearby ...

  4. Reverse lookup - Wikipedia

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    Reverse lookup is a procedure of using a value to retrieve a unique key in an associative array. [1] Applications of reverse lookup include reverse DNS lookup, which provides the domain name associated with a particular IP address, [2] reverse telephone directory, which provides the name of the entity associated with a particular telephone ...

  5. Intelius - Wikipedia

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    Intelius, Inc. is an American public records business headquartered in Seattle, Washington. [1] It provides information services, including people and property search, background checks and reverse phone lookup.

  6. Geographic information system - Wikipedia

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    Geocoding is interpolating spatial locations (X,Y coordinates) from street addresses or any other spatially referenced data such as ZIP Codes, parcel lots and address locations. A reference theme is required to geocode individual addresses, such as a road centerline file with address ranges. The individual address locations have historically ...

  7. Document-oriented database - Wikipedia

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    Document stores use the metadata in the document to classify the content, allowing them, for instance, to understand that one series of digits is a phone number, and another is a postal code. This allows them to search on those types of data, for instance, all phone numbers containing 555, which would ignore the zip code 55555.

  8. Lists of cities in the United States - Wikipedia

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    The following articles contain lists of cities in the United States of America: . Lists of populated places in the United States - Lists of U.S. cities by state; List of United States cities by population

  9. Postal codes in Mexico - Wikipedia

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    Postal codes in Mexico are issued by Correos de México, the national postal service. They are of five digits and modelled on the United States Postal Service's ZIP Code system. The first two digits identify a federal entity (or part thereof). The 01–16 range refers to Mexico City with each corresponds to a borough (demarcación territorial ...