A geocode is a code that represents a geographic entity (location or object). It is a unique identifier of the entity, to distinguish it from others of its geocode system. In general the geocode is a human-readable and short identifier.
A geocode is a code that represents a geographic entity (location or object). It is a unique identifier of the entity, to distinguish it from others of its geocode system. In general the geocode is a human-readable and short identifier.
Typical geocodes (in bold) and entities represented by it: Country code and subdivision code. Polygon of the administrative boundaries of a country or a subdivision. The main examples are ISO codes: ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 code (e.g. AF for Afghanistan or BR for Brazil), and its subdivision conventions, such as subdivision codes (e.g. AF-GHO for Ghor province) or subdivision codes (e.g. BR-AM for Amazonas state). DGG cell ID. Identifier of a cell of a discrete global grid: a Geohash code (e.g. ~0.023km2 cell 6vd23gq at Brazil's centroid) or a Plus Code (e.g. ~0.0002km2 cell 58Q8XXXX+XX within the same area). Postal code. Polygon of a postal area: a CEP code (e.g. 70040 represents a Brazilian's central area for postal distribution).
Discovered by embedding cosine similarity (sentence-transformers MiniLM, 384-dim).