Ribeirão Preto

São PauloBrazil

With a code: #9G5NW-X5LCC
Said aloud: Ribeirão Preto X5LCC

What the code says

The Grid Point Code for Ribeirão Preto is #9G5NW-X5LCC. It names a cell 2.56 m north to south and 3.19 m east to west, centred on 21°10'39.01"S, 47°48'37.04"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 Ribeirão Preto, near its centre.

Code: #9G5NW-X5LCC
With a check character: #9G5NW-X5LCC*W
Short form: X5LCC
Cell centre: -21.177504, -47.810289
Cell size: 2.56 m by 3.19 m
Region: São Paulo
Country: Brazil
Population: 698,642

How to give this address

On a sign, a form or a delivery note: The whole code, #9G5NW-X5LCC. It needs nothing else: no city, no street, no network to read it back.
Said aloud, in São Paulo: Ribeirão Preto X5LCC: 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 5.0 km east or west of Ribeirão Preto. 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: #9G5NW-X5LCC*W. 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 49.8 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.

9G5NMetropolitan area40 km by 49.8 km
9G5NWDistrict8 km by 9.96 km
9G5NWXSuburb1.6 km by 1.99 km
9G5NWX5A few streets320 m by 399 m
9G5NWX5LBuilding64 m by 79.7 m
9G5NWX5LCEntrance12.8 m by 15.9 m
9G5NWX5LCCDoorway2.56 m by 3.19 m

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