Villavicencio

Meta DepartmentColombia

With a code: #GWH8D-9W16L
Said aloud: Villavicencio 9W16L

What the code says

The Grid Point Code for Villavicencio is #GWH8D-9W16L. It names a cell 2.56 m north to south and 3.41 m east to west, centred on 4°07'56.55"N, 73°37'32.25"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 Villavicencio, near its centre.

Code: #GWH8D-9W16L
With a check character: #GWH8D-9W16L*3
Short form: 9W16L
Cell centre: 4.132374, -73.625626
Cell size: 2.56 m by 3.41 m
Region: Meta Department
Country: Colombia
Population: 321,717

How to give this address

On a sign, a form or a delivery note: The whole code, #GWH8D-9W16L. It needs nothing else: no city, no street, no network to read it back.
Said aloud, in Meta Department: Villavicencio 9W16L: 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 Villavicencio. 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: #GWH8D-9W16L*3. 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 53.3 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.

GWH8Metropolitan area40 km by 53.3 km
GWH8DDistrict8 km by 10.7 km
GWH8D9Suburb1.6 km by 2.13 km
GWH8D9WA few streets320 m by 426 m
GWH8D9W1Building64 m by 85.3 m
GWH8D9W16Entrance12.8 m by 17.1 m
GWH8D9W16LDoorway2.56 m by 3.41 m

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