Patent ID: 7574291

Claim:
A method for compressing both latitude and longitude data into compressed codes; the method comprising the steps of: taking Latitude/longitude data in decimal format or converting all other formats into decimal format; adding 90 degrees to the latitude data and 180 degrees to the longitude data in order to shift them into positive values; eliminating the decimal points and converting the latitude and longitude data in decimal into 5 symbols of 36 based numbers respectively, say (La 1 La 2 La 3 La 4 La 5 ) 36 and (Lo 1 Lo 2 Lo 3 Lo 4 Lo 5 ) 36 ; and interlacing these two numbers and inverting a final format, (La 5 Lo 5 La 4 Lo 4 La 3 Lo 3 La 2 Lo 2 La 1 Lo 1 ) 36 .