A new human interface scheme compresses geographical information,
latitudes and longitudes, into a 10 symbols of 36 radices number systems
which are based on 36s. It is to simplify the conventional representation
of the latitudes and longitudes into much easier to be remembered and
accessed by human beings, 10 symbols of 36 radices numbers, "Universal
Geo Numbers". The 5 symbols here can give the accuracy for latitudes and
longitudes down to 5 meters which should be enough to accommodate the
specifications for most geographic navigation related systems (i.e.
GPS/GLONASS) and navigation equipments in the consumer market. The
apparatus includes all means that comprise latitude/longitude information
into the compressed codes for interfacing between human and machines. A
technique for compressing latitude and longitude data into a compression
code comprises the steps of: taking Latitude/longitude data in decimal
format or converting all other formats into decimal format; adding 90
degrees to latitude values and 180 degrees to longitude values in order
to shift them into the positive values; eliminating the decimal points
and converting the latitude and longitude values in decimal into 5
symbols of 36 based numbers respectively; and interlacing these two
numbers inverting a final format. The present invention further includes
a decimator, an adder, a converter and an interlacer for performing the
step of above method.