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Montería

CórdobaColombia

Grid Point Code for Montería
With a code
#GWW15-G9HKP
Said aloud
Montería G9HKP

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What the code says

The Grid Point Code for Montería is #GWW15-G9HKP. It names a cell 2.56 m north to south and 3.38 m east to west, centred on 8°45'02.92"N, 75°52'41.63"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 Montería, near its centre.

Code
#GWW15-G9HKP
With a check character
#GWW15-G9HKP*6
Short form
G9HKP
Cell centre
8.750811, -75.878231
Cell size
2.56 m by 3.38 m
Region
Córdoba
Country
Colombia
Population
490,935

How to give this address

On a sign, a form or a delivery note

The whole code, #GWW15-G9HKP. It needs nothing else: no city, no street, no network to read it back.

Said aloud, in Córdoba

Montería G9HKP: 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 Montería. 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

#GWW15-G9HKP*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 52.8 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. GWW1Metropolitan area40 km by 52.8 km
  2. GWW15District8 km by 10.6 km
  3. GWW15GSuburb1.6 km by 2.11 km
  4. GWW15G9A few streets320 m by 422 m
  5. GWW15G9HBuilding64 m by 84.5 m
  6. GWW15G9HKEntrance12.8 m by 16.9 m
  7. GWW15G9HKPDoorway2.56 m by 3.38 m

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