Grid Point Code

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Feira de Santana

BahiaBrazil

With a code
#9K610-N2LND
Said aloud
Feira de Santana N2LND

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What the code says

The Grid Point Code for Feira de Santana is #9K610-N2LND. It names a cell 2.56 m north to south and 3.34 m east to west, centred on 12°16'00.01"S, 38°58'00.03"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 Feira de Santana, near its centre.

Code
#9K610-N2LND
With a check character
#9K610-N2LND*G
Short form
N2LND
Cell centre
-12.266669, -38.966676
Cell size
2.56 m by 3.34 m
Region
Bahia
Country
Brazil
Population
616,272

How to give this address

On a sign, a form or a delivery note

The whole code, #9K610-N2LND. It needs nothing else: no city, no street, no network to read it back.

Said aloud, in Bahia

Feira de Santana N2LND: 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 5.2 km east or west of Feira de Santana. 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

#9K610-N2LND*G. 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 52.2 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.

  1. 9K61Metropolitan area40 km by 52.2 km
  2. 9K610District8 km by 10.4 km
  3. 9K610NSuburb1.6 km by 2.09 km
  4. 9K610N2A few streets320 m by 418 m
  5. 9K610N2LBuilding64 m by 83.5 m
  6. 9K610N2LNEntrance12.8 m by 16.7 m
  7. 9K610N2LNDDoorway2.56 m by 3.34 m

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