15. A computerized method of generating an encoded version of the lower significant digits of a geographic addresses' latitude and longitude values, said method comprising: obtaining a geographic address; determining the latitude and longitude of said geographic address; determining or obtaining a granularity value; using a computerized device comprising at least one processor, memory, and software to use said granularity value to truncate the higher significant digits of the latitude and longitude of said geographic address, producing lower significant digits of the latitude and longitude of said geographic address; and encoding said lower significant digits of the latitude and longitude of said geographic address.
15. A computerized method of generating an encoded version of the lower significant digits of a geographic addresses' latitude and longitude values, said method comprising: obtaining a geographic address; determining the latitude and longitude of said geographic address; determining or obtaining a granularity value; using a computerized device comprising at least one processor, memory, and software to use said granularity value to truncate the higher significant digits of the latitude and longitude of said geographic address, producing lower significant digits of the latitude and longitude of said geographic address; and encoding said lower significant digits of the latitude and longitude of said geographic address. 16. The method of claim 15 , wherein said encoding maps said values onto a base encoding scheme between or equal to a base 10 to base 128 base encoding scheme, said encoding scheme further using symbols selected from the printable set of ASCII characters.