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Recife

PernambucoBrazil

Grid Point Code for Recife
With a code
#9T4FK-38GC7
Said aloud
Recife 38GC7

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What the code says

The Grid Point Code for Recife is #9T4FK-38GC7. It names a cell 2.56 m north to south and 3.39 m east to west, centred on 8°03'14.03"S, 34°52'51.96"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 Recife, near its centre.

Code
#9T4FK-38GC7
With a check character
#9T4FK-38GC7*D
Short form
38GC7
Cell centre
-8.053897, -34.881101
Cell size
2.56 m by 3.39 m
Region
Pernambuco
Country
Brazil
Population
1,653,461

How to give this address

On a sign, a form or a delivery note

The whole code, #9T4FK-38GC7. It needs nothing else: no city, no street, no network to read it back.

Said aloud, in Pernambuco

Recife 38GC7: 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 5.3 km east or west of Recife. 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

#9T4FK-38GC7*D. 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 52.9 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. 9T4FMetropolitan area40 km by 52.9 km
  2. 9T4FKDistrict8 km by 10.6 km
  3. 9T4FK3Suburb1.6 km by 2.12 km
  4. 9T4FK38A few streets320 m by 423 m
  5. 9T4FK38GBuilding64 m by 84.7 m
  6. 9T4FK38GCEntrance12.8 m by 16.9 m
  7. 9T4FK38GC7Doorway2.56 m by 3.39 m

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