Lake Assal

What the code says

The Grid Point Code for Lake Assal is #JK7GM-X1P9H. It names a cell 2.56 m north to south and 3.35 m east to west, centred on 11°39'00.01"N, 42°24'59.96"E, and it turns back into that cell on any phone or computer by arithmetic alone: no network, no account, no lookup table.

What it is

Crater lake in Djibouti

Code

#JK7GM-X1P9H

With a check character

#JK7GM-X1P9H*X

Short form

X1P9H

Cell centre

11.650003, 42.416655

Cell size

2.56 m by 3.35 m

Region

Tadjourah Region

Country

Djibouti

How to give this address

On a sign, a form or a delivery note

The whole code, #JK7GM-X1P9H. It needs nothing else: no city, no street, no network to read it back.

Said aloud, in Tadjourah Region

Lake Assal X1P9H: 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 5.2 km east or west of Lake Assal. 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

#JK7GM-X1P9H*X. 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 52.3 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.

1. GJK7GMetropolitan area40 km by 52.3 km
2. MJK7GMDistrict8 km by 10.5 km
3. XJK7GMXSuburb1.6 km by 2.09 km
4. 1JK7GMX1A few streets320 m by 419 m
5. PJK7GMX1PBuilding64 m by 83.7 m
6. 9JK7GMX1P9Entrance12.8 m by 16.7 m
7. HJK7GMX1P9HDoorway2.56 m by 3.35 m

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