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The term for a system that encodes geographic locations into a number or string is a "geocode", and there's quite a lot of prior art here: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G…. But as others have said, it's probably a mistake to encode semantic information into the numbers - just let them be opaque numbers, possibly with Easter eggs as you describe.…
The term for a system that encodes geographic locations into a number or string is a "geocode", and there's quite a lot of prior art here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geocode. But as others have said, it's probably a mistake to encode semantic information into the numbers - just let them be opaque numbers, possibly with Easter eggs as you describe. The only way I'd break from opacity would be by handing out prefixes to local authorities and letting them do whatever they want within their block of assigned numbers, much as we do with blocks of IP addresses.