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Brampton

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Grid Point Code for Brampton
With a code
#G3RK9-NFT75
Said aloud
Brampton NFT75

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What the code says

The Grid Point Code for Brampton is #G3RK9-NFT75. It names a cell 2.56 m north to south and 2.47 m east to west, centred on 43°41'00.29"N, 79°45'58.82"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 Brampton, near its centre.

Code
#G3RK9-NFT75
With a check character
#G3RK9-NFT75*7
Short form
NFT75
Cell centre
43.683414, -79.766339
Cell size
2.56 m by 2.47 m
Region
Ontario
Country
Canada
Population
656,480

How to give this address

On a sign, a form or a delivery note

The whole code, #G3RK9-NFT75. It needs nothing else: no city, no street, no network to read it back.

Said aloud, in Ontario

Brampton NFT75: 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 3.9 km east or west of Brampton. 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

#G3RK9-NFT75*7. 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 38.6 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. G3RKMetropolitan area40 km by 38.6 km
  2. G3RK9District8 km by 7.73 km
  3. G3RK9NSuburb1.6 km by 1.55 km
  4. G3RK9NFA few streets320 m by 309 m
  5. G3RK9NFTBuilding64 m by 61.8 m
  6. G3RK9NFT7Entrance12.8 m by 12.4 m
  7. G3RK9NFT75Doorway2.56 m by 2.47 m

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