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Caño Cristales

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Grid Point Code for Caño Cristales
With a code
#GW56M-DLRT7
Said aloud
Caño Cristales DLRT7

Open in the playground

What the code says

The Grid Point Code for Caño Cristales is #GW56M-DLRT7. It names a cell 2.56 m north to south and 3.42 m east to west, centred on 2°15'51.03"N, 73°47'39.96"W, and it turns back into that cell on any phone or computer by arithmetic alone: no network, no account, no lookup table.

What it is
River in Colombia
Code
#GW56M-DLRT7
With a check character
#GW56M-DLRT7*N
Short form
DLRT7
Cell centre
2.264175, -73.794432
Cell size
2.56 m by 3.42 m
Region
Meta
Country
Colombia

How to give this address

On a sign, a form or a delivery note

The whole code, #GW56M-DLRT7. It needs nothing else: no city, no street, no network to read it back.

Said aloud, in Meta

Caño Cristales DLRT7: 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 Caño Cristales. 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

#GW56M-DLRT7*N. 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 53.4 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. GW56Metropolitan area40 km by 53.4 km
  2. GW56MDistrict8 km by 10.7 km
  3. GW56MDSuburb1.6 km by 2.14 km
  4. GW56MDLA few streets320 m by 427 m
  5. GW56MDLRBuilding64 m by 85.4 m
  6. GW56MDLRTEntrance12.8 m by 17.1 m
  7. GW56MDLRT7Doorway2.56 m by 3.42 m

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