Thinking about using the word geocode? Think again, it is trademarked by Geocode, Inc. This prompted OpenStreetMap to pull the word from their wiki. See info here and here. I wonder what the big GIS software companies are going to do?
SoCalGIS.org
Southern California Government GIS User Group – Working together locally in GIS
SoCalGIS.org 
Hmmm … so I’ll go back to geo-code … or GeoCode? Or how about geographic coding?
Esh. 🙂
DIANA McCARTHY | GIS Specialist
City of Fullerton | Community Development Department
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