Grid Point Code

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Florianópolis

Santa CatarinaBrazil

With a code
#95XKN-MGP0D
Said aloud
Florianópolis MGP0D

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What the code says

The Grid Point Code for Florianópolis is #95XKN-MGP0D. It names a cell 2.56 m north to south and 3.03 m east to west, centred on 27°35'48.04"S, 48°32'57.00"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 Florianópolis, near its centre.

Code
#95XKN-MGP0D
With a check character
#95XKN-MGP0D*N
Short form
MGP0D
Cell centre
-27.596678, -48.549166
Cell size
2.56 m by 3.03 m
Region
Santa Catarina
Country
Brazil
Population
508,826

How to give this address

On a sign, a form or a delivery note

The whole code, #95XKN-MGP0D. It needs nothing else: no city, no street, no network to read it back.

Said aloud, in Santa Catarina

Florianópolis MGP0D: 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 4.7 km east or west of Florianópolis. 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

#95XKN-MGP0D*N. 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 47.4 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. 95XKMetropolitan area40 km by 47.4 km
  2. 95XKNDistrict8 km by 9.47 km
  3. 95XKNMSuburb1.6 km by 1.89 km
  4. 95XKNMGA few streets320 m by 379 m
  5. 95XKNMGPBuilding64 m by 75.8 m
  6. 95XKNMGP0Entrance12.8 m by 15.2 m
  7. 95XKNMGP0DDoorway2.56 m by 3.03 m

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