Melbourne

VictoriaAustralia

With a code: #6T520-P04MD
Said aloud: Melbourne P04MD

What the code says

The Grid Point Code for Melbourne is #6T520-P04MD. It names a cell 2.56 m north to south and 2.70 m east to west, centred on 37°48'50.39"S, 144°57'48.00"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 Melbourne, near its centre.

Code: #6T520-P04MD
With a check character: #6T520-P04MD*R
Short form: P04MD
Cell centre: -37.813997, 144.963333
Cell size: 2.56 m by 2.70 m
Region: Victoria
Country: Australia
Population: 5,435,590

How to give this address

On a sign, a form or a delivery note: The whole code, #6T520-P04MD. It needs nothing else: no city, no street, no network to read it back.
Said aloud, in Victoria: Melbourne P04MD: 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 4.2 km east or west of Melbourne. 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: #6T520-P04MD*R. 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 42.2 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.

6T52Metropolitan area40 km by 42.2 km
6T520District8 km by 8.44 km
6T520PSuburb1.6 km by 1.69 km
6T520P0A few streets320 m by 338 m
6T520P04Building64 m by 67.5 m
6T520P04MEntrance12.8 m by 13.5 m
6T520P04MDDoorway2.56 m by 2.7 m

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