Menongue

What the code says

The Grid Point Code for Menongue is #867WN-DTNJW. It names a cell 2.56 m north to south and 3.31 m east to west, centred on 14°39'30.59"S, 17°41'27.56"E, and it turns back into that cell on any phone or computer by arithmetic alone: no network, no account, no lookup table.

The point used is the one GeoNames records for Menongue, near its centre.

Code

#867WN-DTNJW

With a check character

#867WN-DTNJW*3

Short form

DTNJW

Cell centre

-14.658497, 17.690988

Cell size

2.56 m by 3.31 m

Region

Cubango

Country

Angola

Population

251,178

How to give this address

On a sign, a form or a delivery note

The whole code, #867WN-DTNJW. It needs nothing else: no city, no street, no network to read it back.

Said aloud, in Cubango

Menongue DTNJW: 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 5.2 km east or west of Menongue. 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

#867WN-DTNJW*3. 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 51.7 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. W867WMetropolitan area40 km by 51.7 km
2. N867WNDistrict8 km by 10.3 km
3. D867WNDSuburb1.6 km by 2.07 km
4. T867WNDTA few streets320 m by 414 m
5. N867WNDTNBuilding64 m by 82.7 m
6. J867WNDTNJEntrance12.8 m by 16.5 m
7. W867WNDTNJWDoorway2.56 m by 3.31 m

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