Grid Point Code

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Pasto

NariñoColombia

With a code
#GW2J5-P9LN4
Said aloud
Pasto P9LN4

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What the code says

The Grid Point Code for Pasto is #GW2J5-P9LN4. It names a cell 2.56 m north to south and 3.42 m east to west, centred on 1°12'52.43"N, 77°16'42.42"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 Pasto, near its centre.

Code
#GW2J5-P9LN4
With a check character
#GW2J5-P9LN4*K
Short form
P9LN4
Cell centre
1.214565, -77.278449
Cell size
2.56 m by 3.42 m
Region
Nariño
Country
Colombia
Population
392,930

How to give this address

On a sign, a form or a delivery note

The whole code, #GW2J5-P9LN4. It needs nothing else: no city, no street, no network to read it back.

Said aloud, in Nariño

Pasto P9LN4: 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 Pasto. 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

#GW2J5-P9LN4*K. 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. GW2JMetropolitan area40 km by 53.4 km
  2. GW2J5District8 km by 10.7 km
  3. GW2J5PSuburb1.6 km by 2.14 km
  4. GW2J5P9A few streets320 m by 427 m
  5. GW2J5P9LBuilding64 m by 85.5 m
  6. GW2J5P9LNEntrance12.8 m by 17.1 m
  7. GW2J5P9LN4Doorway2.56 m by 3.42 m

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