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Curitiba

ParanáBrazil

Grid Point Code for Curitiba
With a code
#9H0T6-WWTD5
Said aloud
Curitiba WWTD5

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What the code says

The Grid Point Code for Curitiba is #9H0T6-WWTD5. It names a cell 2.56 m north to south and 3.09 m east to west, centred on 25°25'40.03"S, 49°16'22.99"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 Curitiba, near its centre.

Code
#9H0T6-WWTD5
With a check character
#9H0T6-WWTD5*J
Short form
WWTD5
Cell centre
-25.427785, -49.273052
Cell size
2.56 m by 3.09 m
Region
Paraná
Country
Brazil
Population
1,948,626

How to give this address

On a sign, a form or a delivery note

The whole code, #9H0T6-WWTD5. It needs nothing else: no city, no street, no network to read it back.

Said aloud, in Paraná

Curitiba WWTD5: 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 4.8 km east or west of Curitiba. 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

#9H0T6-WWTD5*J. 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 48.3 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. 9H0TMetropolitan area40 km by 48.3 km
  2. 9H0T6District8 km by 9.65 km
  3. 9H0T6WSuburb1.6 km by 1.93 km
  4. 9H0T6WWA few streets320 m by 386 m
  5. 9H0T6WWTBuilding64 m by 77.2 m
  6. 9H0T6WWTDEntrance12.8 m by 15.4 m
  7. 9H0T6WWTD5Doorway2.56 m by 3.09 m

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