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LocaPoint is the state-of-the-art location pointer code that can express any location of the world, only with 12 letters.

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You can say prompt answer, "10:35" or "16:45" to the question, "What time is it". But, can you say a prompt answer to the question, "Where is it" ?
You may use Address, Landmark, Direction, or Map. But there is no prompt way to answer - before LocaPoint came.

Application

LocaPoint can be used in anything that need to show a location.

* Directory/Travel Guide/Restaurant Guide
* Blog/Travel Diary
* Real Estate information
* Pleasure
* Appointment
* Advertising/Signs
* and More....

Advantages of using LocaPoint

LocaPoint has a unique format - ”Letter, Letter, Number” , that leads a three advantages.

First, you can easily recognize that this is a information regarding a location by this format, as you do for "***@***.com" as email address, or "http://****" as URLs.

Second, the pattern of "Letter, Letter, Number" helps you to cognize, read, tell, listen, input, or remember. If a code has no pattern, or is totally random, you may have a difficult time to use it.

Third, LocaPoint unique format is also "Detectable" for a computer. Computer can detect LocaPoint as a "location information" and can automatically start a GIS application, such as Map or Navigator.
Here is a simple program to do it. By clicking this, every LocaPoint that is written in plain text will be "Linkify" to GoogleMaps with specified location.

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