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Sorocaba

São PauloBrazil

Grid Point Code for Sorocaba
With a code
#9GJ1N-G1NDG
Said aloud
Sorocaba G1NDG

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What the code says

The Grid Point Code for Sorocaba is #9GJ1N-G1NDG. It names a cell 2.56 m north to south and 3.14 m east to west, centred on 23°30'05.99"S, 47°27'28.99"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 Sorocaba, near its centre.

Code
#9GJ1N-G1NDG
With a check character
#9GJ1N-G1NDG*6
Short form
G1NDG
Cell centre
-23.501664, -47.458053
Cell size
2.56 m by 3.14 m
Region
São Paulo
Country
Brazil
Population
762,172

How to give this address

On a sign, a form or a delivery note

The whole code, #9GJ1N-G1NDG. It needs nothing else: no city, no street, no network to read it back.

Said aloud, in São Paulo

Sorocaba G1NDG: 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 4.9 km east or west of Sorocaba. 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

#9GJ1N-G1NDG*6. 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 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. 9GJ1Metropolitan area40 km by 49 km
  2. 9GJ1NDistrict8 km by 9.8 km
  3. 9GJ1NGSuburb1.6 km by 1.96 km
  4. 9GJ1NG1A few streets320 m by 392 m
  5. 9GJ1NG1NBuilding64 m by 78.4 m
  6. 9GJ1NG1NDEntrance12.8 m by 15.7 m
  7. 9GJ1NG1NDGDoorway2.56 m by 3.14 m

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