Santa Clara

Villa Clara ProvinceCuba

With a code: #GGDG7-94753
Said aloud: Santa Clara 94753

What the code says

The Grid Point Code for Santa Clara is #GGDG7-94753. It names a cell 2.56 m north to south and 3.16 m east to west, centred on 22°24'25.57"N, 79°57'56.89"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 Santa Clara, near its centre.

Code: #GGDG7-94753
With a check character: #GGDG7-94753*2
Short form: 94753
Cell centre: 22.407103, -79.965804
Cell size: 2.56 m by 3.16 m
Region: Villa Clara Province
Country: Cuba
Population: 250,512

How to give this address

On a sign, a form or a delivery note: The whole code, #GGDG7-94753. It needs nothing else: no city, no street, no network to read it back.
Said aloud, in Villa Clara Province: Santa Clara 94753: 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 4.9 km east or west of Santa Clara. 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: #GGDG7-94753*2. 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 49.4 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.

GGDGMetropolitan area40 km by 49.4 km
GGDG7District8 km by 9.88 km
GGDG79Suburb1.6 km by 1.98 km
GGDG794A few streets320 m by 395 m
GGDG7947Building64 m by 79 m
GGDG79475Entrance12.8 m by 15.8 m
GGDG794753Doorway2.56 m by 3.16 m

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