Grid Point Code

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San Salvador de Jujuy

JujuyArgentina

With a code
#CCLGJ-XR77W
Said aloud
San Salvador de Jujuy XR77W

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What the code says

The Grid Point Code for San Salvador de Jujuy is #CCLGJ-XR77W. It names a cell 2.56 m north to south and 3.12 m east to west, centred on 24°11'34.06"S, 65°17'36.27"W, 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 San Salvador de Jujuy, near its centre.

Code
#CCLGJ-XR77W
With a check character
#CCLGJ-XR77W*9
Short form
XR77W
Cell centre
-24.192795, -65.293409
Cell size
2.56 m by 3.12 m
Region
Jujuy
Country
Argentina
Population
257,970

How to give this address

On a sign, a form or a delivery note

The whole code, #CCLGJ-XR77W. It needs nothing else: no city, no street, no network to read it back.

Said aloud, in Jujuy

San Salvador de Jujuy XR77W: 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 4.9 km east or west of San Salvador de Jujuy. 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

#CCLGJ-XR77W*9. 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 48.7 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. CCLGMetropolitan area40 km by 48.7 km
  2. CCLGJDistrict8 km by 9.75 km
  3. CCLGJXSuburb1.6 km by 1.95 km
  4. CCLGJXRA few streets320 m by 390 m
  5. CCLGJXR7Building64 m by 78 m
  6. CCLGJXR77Entrance12.8 m by 15.6 m
  7. CCLGJXR77WDoorway2.56 m by 3.12 m

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