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Tassili n'Ajjer

Illizi ProvinceAlgeria

Grid Point Code for Tassili n'Ajjer
With a code
#JC36M-GG3WW
Said aloud
Tassili n'Ajjer GG3WW

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What the code says

The Grid Point Code for Tassili n'Ajjer is #JC36M-GG3WW. It names a cell 2.56 m north to south and 3.08 m east to west, centred on 25°39'59.99"N, 8°59'59.97"E, and it turns back into that cell on any phone or computer by arithmetic alone: no network, no account, no lookup table.

What it is
Sandstone massif in Algeria's central Sahara Desert
Code
#JC36M-GG3WW
With a check character
#JC36M-GG3WW*F
Short form
GG3WW
Cell centre
25.666664, 8.999992
Cell size
2.56 m by 3.08 m
Region
Illizi Province
Country
Algeria

How to give this address

On a sign, a form or a delivery note

The whole code, #JC36M-GG3WW. It needs nothing else: no city, no street, no network to read it back.

Said aloud, in Illizi Province

Tassili n'Ajjer GG3WW: a name both people know, then the last five characters. They give back the exact code for anywhere within 4.0 km north or south and 4.8 km east or west of Tassili n'Ajjer. Further away the same five name somewhere else, which is why the whole code is what goes on a sign.

Copied by hand, or read over a phone

#JC36M-GG3WW*F. The character on the end catches any single mistyped symbol and any two neighbours swapped.

As a link or a square code

Open it on the map, move to the exact door, and add directions if the code needs help: "blue gate, second floor". The link and the square code carry them. Nothing is kept on this site.

From the city to the door

The first four characters name a cell about 40 km by 48.2 km here. Each one after that picks one of 25 inside the last, so the whole ten name a spot about the size of a doorway.

  1. JC36Metropolitan area40 km by 48.2 km
  2. JC36MDistrict8 km by 9.63 km
  3. JC36MGSuburb1.6 km by 1.93 km
  4. JC36MGGA few streets320 m by 385 m
  5. JC36MGG3Building64 m by 77.1 m
  6. JC36MGG3WEntrance12.8 m by 15.4 m
  7. JC36MGG3WWDoorway2.56 m by 3.08 m

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