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Cuiabá

Mato GrossoBrazil

Grid Point Code for Cuiabá
With a code
#9J8MN-63LF1
Said aloud
Cuiabá 63LF1

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What the code says

The Grid Point Code for Cuiabá is #9J8MN-63LF1. It names a cell 2.56 m north to south and 3.29 m east to west, centred on 15°35'46.00"S, 56°05'48.02"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 Cuiabá, near its centre.

Code
#9J8MN-63LF1
With a check character
#9J8MN-63LF1*T
Short form
63LF1
Cell centre
-15.596110, -56.096671
Cell size
2.56 m by 3.29 m
Region
Mato Grosso
Country
Brazil
Population
618,124

How to give this address

On a sign, a form or a delivery note

The whole code, #9J8MN-63LF1. It needs nothing else: no city, no street, no network to read it back.

Said aloud, in Mato Grosso

Cuiabá 63LF1: 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 5.1 km east or west of Cuiabá. 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

#9J8MN-63LF1*T. 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 51.5 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. 9J8MMetropolitan area40 km by 51.5 km
  2. 9J8MNDistrict8 km by 10.3 km
  3. 9J8MN6Suburb1.6 km by 2.06 km
  4. 9J8MN63A few streets320 m by 412 m
  5. 9J8MN63LBuilding64 m by 82.3 m
  6. 9J8MN63LFEntrance12.8 m by 16.5 m
  7. 9J8MN63LF1Doorway2.56 m by 3.29 m

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