Cúcuta

Norte de Santander DepartmentColombia

With a code: #GWX60-WWL74
Said aloud: Cúcuta WWL74

What the code says

The Grid Point Code for Cúcuta is #GWX60-WWL74. It names a cell 2.56 m north to south and 3.39 m east to west, centred on 7°54'26.84"N, 72°30'17.64"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 Cúcuta, near its centre.

Code: #GWX60-WWL74
With a check character: #GWX60-WWL74*8
Short form: WWL74
Cell centre: 7.907455, -72.504899
Cell size: 2.56 m by 3.39 m
Region: Norte de Santander Department
Country: Colombia
Population: 777,106

How to give this address

On a sign, a form or a delivery note: The whole code, #GWX60-WWL74. It needs nothing else: no city, no street, no network to read it back.
Said aloud, in Norte de Santander Department: Cúcuta WWL74: 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 Cúcuta. 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: #GWX60-WWL74*8. 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 52.9 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.

GWX6Metropolitan area40 km by 52.9 km
GWX60District8 km by 10.6 km
GWX60WSuburb1.6 km by 2.12 km
GWX60WWA few streets320 m by 423 m
GWX60WWLBuilding64 m by 84.7 m
GWX60WWL7Entrance12.8 m by 16.9 m
GWX60WWL74Doorway2.56 m by 3.39 m

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