Newcastle

New South WalesAustralia

With a code: #6LKKD-N6P88
Said aloud: Newcastle N6P88

What the code says

The Grid Point Code for Newcastle is #6LKKD-N6P88. It names a cell 2.56 m north to south and 2.87 m east to west, centred on 32°55'46.34"S, 151°46'48.36"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 Newcastle, near its centre.

Code: #6LKKD-N6P88
With a check character: #6LKKD-N6P88*3
Short form: N6P88
Cell centre: -32.929540, 151.780101
Cell size: 2.56 m by 2.87 m
Region: New South Wales
Country: Australia
Population: 508,437

How to give this address

On a sign, a form or a delivery note: The whole code, #6LKKD-N6P88. It needs nothing else: no city, no street, no network to read it back.
Said aloud, in New South Wales: Newcastle N6P88: 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 4.5 km east or west of Newcastle. 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: #6LKKD-N6P88*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 44.8 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.

6LKKMetropolitan area40 km by 44.8 km
6LKKDDistrict8 km by 8.97 km
6LKKDNSuburb1.6 km by 1.79 km
6LKKDN6A few streets320 m by 359 m
6LKKDN6PBuilding64 m by 71.8 m
6LKKDN6P8Entrance12.8 m by 14.4 m
6LKKDN6P88Doorway2.56 m by 2.87 m

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