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Streamline the Use of Location Technology for Police Officers

Streamline the Use of Location Technology for Police Officers. Xinhang Shen NAC Geographic Products Inc. ( www.nacgeo.com ) . Problems.

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Streamline the Use of Location Technology for Police Officers

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  1. Streamline the Use of Location Technology for Police Officers Xinhang Shen NAC Geographic Products Inc. (www.nacgeo.com)

  2. Problems Currently, police officers do not have an efficient and consistent representation of locations and areas for all location tools and communications as commonly used street addresses and lon/lat have many problems and limitations.

  3. Problems of Street Addresses • long and inefficient, • language and script dependent, • not well standardized and full of variations, • no direct hint of where they are, • not available everywhere, • not always unique and frequently changing • often missing in databases

  4. Problems of Lon/Lat • Long and inefficient, • Without a standard writing format, • Not suitable as grids for all scales of maps, • Confusing on geodetic datums.

  5. Consequences • Unnecessary deaths and losses of properties due to delay in finding locations in 911 responses • Court disputes of locations on speeding and parking tickets due to ambiguous descriptions of locations • Time wasting in referencing locations on documents due to difficulty for automation

  6. Solution: Natural Area Code • Highly efficient • Language independent • Unique worldwide • Available everywhere • For both locations and areas • Well formatted for automation

  7. Applications The Natural Area Code can be used as the unified representation of all locations and areas in the world to replace • Longitude/latitude, • Traditional addresses, • Traditional postal codes, • Traditional area codes, • Traditional map grids

  8. Examples NAC: 8CJ6 Q87X represents CN Tower of Toronto NAC: 8C Q8 represents the City of Toronto

  9. Universal Map Grids As the coordinates of the Universal Map Grids, a NAC can be • directly pinpointed on any map with the Universal Map Grids, • read from any map with the Universal Map Grids, and • used to connect the location information between maps.

  10. Sample Maps

  11. GPS Display The short length of a NAC makes the display of the location on a GPS watch very human-friendly.

  12. Navigation Systems Using a NAC instead of a street address to specify a location for navigation can • Reduce 80% of key input, • Avoid difficult inputting of foreign scripts • Eliminate errors from outdated, missing and duplicated addresses, • Make all locations in the world specifiable.

  13. Photographs The short length of a NAC produces a neat print of the accurate location of a crime site or accident on the photograph. 2004-03-30 8CDJ Q8SF

  14. Parking Tickets Police officers can use the NAC to represent the accurate location of any wrongly parked car on a parking ticket.

  15. Reports and Documents NAC can be used to refer accurate locations of crimes and accidents in all kinds of reports and documents, which can be automatically recognized and hyperlinked to maps and databases.

  16. Consistency The most important thing is the consistency the NAC has brought to police officers as it can be used in • all location tools (maps, GISs, GPS devices, navigation systems, etc) • all kinds of communications (human to human, human to machine and machine to machine).

  17. Conclusion NAC can streamline the uses of all location technologies for police officers to produce: • Efficiency • Reliability • Geographic coverage completion • Consistency

  18. Thanks for Your Attention! • For more information, please check: • www.nacgeo.com/nacsite/ • www.nactag.info • www.nacgeo.com/nacmaps.asp • www.nacgeo.com/nactag.asp • www.nacgeo.com/nacearth.asp • www.nacgeo.com/nacaddin.asp • www.nacgeo.com/nacgoogle.asp • www.travelgis.com/geocode/ • Or email to: xshen@nacgeo.com

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