Patent ID: 6186795
Filing Date: 2001-02-13
Classification: G09B

Abstract:
A method for referencing locations on a globe comprising:providing a globe, said globe having surface lines dividing said globe into ten rhombus shapes, said ten rhombus shapes being substantially equal in area, each of said ten rhombus shapes defining a decant, each decant having surface lines dividing it into 100 substantially equal rhombus hectars, each hectar having surface lines dividing it into 100 substantially equal rhombus sectors;a top corner of five of said decants meeting at a top pole point of the globe and a bottom corner of the other five of said decants meeting at a bottom pole point of the globe substantially diametrically opposite the top pole point;wherein said decants bear numbering consecutively and distinctly from 0 to 9, said decants bearing 0 to 4 being placed consecutively on a top section of the globe such that the top corners of said decants bearing 0 to 4 connect at the top pole point, said decants bearing 5 to 9 being consecutively placed around a bottom section of said globe;each of said hectars bearing numbers consecutively and distinctly from 00 to 99;each of said sectors bearing numbers consecutively and distinctly from 00 to 99;displaying on a visually perceptible medium at least one of said sectors having surface lines dividing it into 100 substantially equal rhombus regions, each of said regions bearing numbers consecutively and distinctly from 00 to 99;displaying on a visually perceptible medium at least one of said regions having surface lines dividing it into 100 substantially equal rhombus districts, each of said districts bearing numbers consecutively and distinctly from 00 to 99;displaying on a visually perceptible medium at least one of said districts having surface lines dividing it into 100 substantially equal rhombus tracts, each of said tracts bearing numbers consecutively and distinctly from 00 to 99;displaying on a visually perceptible medium at least one of said tracts having surface lines dividing it into 100 substantially equal rhombus lots, each of said lots bearing numbers consecutively and distinctly from 00 to 99;displaying on a visually perceptible medium at least one of said lots having surface lines dividing it into 100 substantially equal rhombus cells, each of said cells bearing numbers consecutively and distinctly from 00 to 99;displaying on a visually perceptible medium at least one of said cells having surface lines dividing it into 100 substantially equal rhombus spots, each of said spots bearing numbers consecutively and distinctly from 00 to 99; anddisplaying a location from said globe by a seventeen-digit coordinate corresponding to the numbering of a decant-hectar-sector-region-district-tract-lot-cell-spot including said location.