Surrey
British ColumbiaCanada
- With a code
#W0DNC-24RTL- Said aloud
- Surrey
24RTL
What the code says
The Grid Point Code for Surrey is #W0DNC-24RTL. It names a cell 2.56 m north to south and 2.24 m east to west, centred on 49°06'22.82"N, 122°49'30.32"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 Surrey, near its centre.
- Code
#W0DNC-24RTL- With a check character
#W0DNC-24RTL*D- Short form
24RTL- Cell centre
- 49.106339, -122.825088
- Cell size
- 2.56 m by 2.24 m
- Region
- British Columbia
- Country
- Canada
- Population
- 568,322
How to give this address
- On a sign, a form or a delivery note
The whole code,
#W0DNC-24RTL. It needs nothing else: no city, no street, no network to read it back.- Said aloud, in British Columbia
Surrey 24RTL: 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 3.5 km east or west of Surrey. 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
#W0DNC-24RTL*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 35 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.
- W0DNMetropolitan area40 km by 35 km
- W0DNCDistrict8 km by 7 km
- W0DNC2Suburb1.6 km by 1.4 km
- W0DNC24A few streets320 m by 280 m
- W0DNC24RBuilding64 m by 56 m
- W0DNC24RTEntrance12.8 m by 11.2 m
- W0DNC24RTLDoorway2.56 m by 2.24 m
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